On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 19:22:37 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:

Just use plural, it's what you mean anyway.

I was being ironic...

Variation is good for language. Artificial constraints like "gender neutral terms" harm expression. It is not a reasonable policy making arena in non-official contexts. But even then the best option is to vary, sometimes use "she", sometimes "he", sometimes "thin", sometimes "fat", sometimes "black", sometimes "white", etc...

But the real point is _culture_. Most people are happy they make themselves understood in a foreign language.

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