12-December-2005, 10:19 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
This is an interesting area of grammar evolution/devolution. "They" or "them" or "their" are being used in place of the singular he (him, his) or she (her, hers) because some writers are attempting to be gender neutral.
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"They" and "their" have been used to refer to persons of unknown sex for centuries.
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