i don't experience gender but i've never really been happy with how singular they is conjugated, both the usual way and the agreeing way sound wrong to me. It's not the biggest deal but i'd much prefer we never had gendered pronouns in the first place. Sorry, people who like their pronouns i guess.
exactly. and then "they is" is *plural * in some dialects of AAVE, there's no way for us to win. hopefully the zoomers are just used to it and this won't even be a topic of conversation in 50 years
Honestly, I'd prefer separate third person singular gender neutral pronouns and third person plural gender neutral pronouns.
But in practical terms, singular they/them/their makes sense.
Though, interestingly the singular reflexive third person gender neutral does exist in themself
we dont even have separate second person singular and plural pronoun. Maybe we ought to get rid of "I" also to finish the job.
y'all
That's the other route, but in that case I think you'd want exclusive and inclusive versions of we
Regarding "you", I strongly support y'all as 2nd person plural.
i don't experience gender but i've never really been happy with how singular they is conjugated, both the usual way and the agreeing way sound wrong to me. It's not the biggest deal but i'd much prefer we never had gendered pronouns in the first place. Sorry, people who like their pronouns i guess.
I've thought this too. In the past, I wanted to say "they is" if using singular they
exactly. and then "they is" is *plural * in some dialects of AAVE, there's no way for us to win. hopefully the zoomers are just used to it and this won't even be a topic of conversation in 50 years