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Is it time English adopt a genderless pronoun?
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08-28-2012, 09:02 AM
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These things really can't be arbitrated; if the language has a genuine need for a gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun, it will gain one. Some might say that it already has, in the extension of the usage of the pronoun "they".
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