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Honestly, while I might say such a sentence, I wouldn't allow myself to write it.

• dataflow 4y ago
  I'm curious what the closest sentence you would allow yourself to write would be.
  • JasonFruit 4y ago
    I'd go with, "Someone I don't know came into this room and took everything," or even, "Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took everything." I'm not against a neuter pronoun where it's justified, but there was no need for "themselves" here, and it was worse than several alternatives.
    • dataflow 4y ago
      Okay, I guess that answers my immediate sub-question, but it misses the point about the plurality of the pronouns. > or even, "Someone came into this room. I don't know them, but they took everything." "Them" would still be plural by your earlier logic though. Unless you're suggesting that you think "themselves" is plural and "themself" would be the singular?