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RMS's stance is that "they" is not a grammatically valid singular pronoun, so he'll not use it. If somebody told you that their preferred pronoun was "we", I d
by gnomewascool 6y ago
RMS's stance is that "they" is not a grammatically valid singular pronoun, so he'll not use it.
If somebody told you that their preferred pronoun was "we", I doubt you'd use it.
> not every transgender person wants to be thrown into an "other" category with their pronouns
RMS's pronoun "perse" is gender-neutral (not non-gender).
The stance is IMO crazy, but he does have a point that using "they" as both singular and plural introduces ambiguity.
- dpatterbee 6y agoIt does introduce ambiguity in certain sentences, but pronouns already do that and we don't have much issue using them. The solution is to just not use the pronoun if it's ambiguous, pronouns are just a convenience.