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
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