> It also really sounds weird to a French like me. It sounds weird, and incorrect, to a native English-speaker like me, particularly when 'they' and 'their' ar

> It also really sounds weird to a French like me. It sounds weird, and incorrect, to a native English-speaker like me, particularly when 'they' and 'their' are used more than once or maybe twice in a sentence. If you don't know whether someone is male or female, use male pronouns until told otherwise. That's the rule in English, and it works.