Forum:The Singular "They": Difference between revisions

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 While that last bit says using "their" is permissible, please keep the last bit in mind, as well: "If you do use a singular noun and the context makes the gender clear, then it is permissible to use just 'his' or 'her' rather than 'his or her.'"}}
+{{KrytenKoro|Teachers are very, very often wrong. What anyone's teacher told them is irrelevant to our purposes, and to an extent, what past prescriptivists have tried to claim is also generally irrelevant (like the canard about not having prepositions at the end of a sentence, when that has ''always'' been common in the English language).
+We can agree to use one of the professional manuals of style, fine, but even the one quoted says that "they" can be appropriate.
+If we run into a situation where gender is given by context, fine, but note that that is ''not'' the same as a command currently being used by only one character -- ex., the canon gives no indication that Dark Firaga is a male command, even though only male characters have used it so far.
+(On a personal and absolutely non-binding note, "his/her" "his and her", etc., sound awful to me because they're so ''long''. We don't want our prose to be meandering or purple, and I think it's worth trying to improve the English language and damn the prescriptivists. On a similar track, I think it should be obvious to everyone why we shouldn't default to a specific gender as many MoS often recommend.)}}

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