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by woliveirajr 3575 days ago
He meant "attributed to him", I think.
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Biganon 3575 days ago
No, they don't know whether the player "null" was male or female, therefore they used the pronoun "they", which is correct.
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adwn 3575 days ago
> the pronoun "they", which is correct

It's also highly ambiguous in this specific case (I had trouble understanding the sentence, too), and a simple "him/her" would have been preferable.

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woliveirajr 3574 days ago
Got it (really didn't knew this use of "they").

Reading back, perhaps "the player" would be better than "they", if it was just one player having problems.

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