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sabboom t1_je2b8vj wrote

I wish school children were still taught cursive. That way they would know where the money came from when they open their birthday cards.

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MinisculeInformant t1_je2an2d wrote

English has four genders: masculine, feminine, neuter, and nonspecific. There are four third-person singular pronouns: he, she, it, and they. Each corresponds to one grammatical gender.

"They" has been used as a singular pronoun since at least the time that Chaucer wrote the Canterbury tales, close to a thousand years ago. However, recently it has become associated with non-binary people (NBs) who prefer to be referred to as "they" rather than by a gendered pronoun. Many people in the USA are bigoted against NBs, and bigots would generally rather be hateful than factually correct.

Personally, I vastly prefer "they" over the slew of neopronouns that have been invented in the last few years.

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