• AItoothbrush
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      379 hours ago

      Shakespear rolling in his grave because even he used singular they…

        • @BluesF
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          9 hours ago

          Instead of “s/he is” you can say “they are”, even though it’s singular. “They” is the preferred pronoun for any situation where gender is unclear or (usually, but not always) for non binary people.

          • @[email protected]
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            177 hours ago

            Oh sorry I brutaly translated this from French where we say" iel " (contraction of “Elle” and “il” our feminine and masculine pronoun). I already saw they but I didn’t thought about it.

            • @mossy_
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              65 hours ago

              It’s all good! The fact that you want to be inclusive is great. They have a contraction for nonbinary pronouns in french? that’s awesome.

              • Vivian (they/them)
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                84 hours ago

                Well, it’s a neopronoun, so while it’s popular enough for most people to understand what it means, in my experience “iel” sadly gets a lot of pushback (“oh but we don’t do that in French” etc.) which means it’s rarely used in contexts other than to refer to non-binary people who have expressed a preference for “iel”.

                • @mossy_
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                  43 hours ago

                  Yeah that sounds familiar