On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 15:43:31 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The Devil is in the details. The cases that you mention are not analogous. > >Now, I could make a case that we would be better off had we retained the >neuter gender. But most of what you mentioned doesn't represent an obvious >loss of clarity, conciseness, expressive power or precision. > Am I perverse? When I grudgingly bow to Political Correctness and use "they" as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, I use a singular verb with it.
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