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by philh 4213 days ago
> On a related note, when are we getting genderless pronouns for English?

When enough people start using them despite occasionally annoying other people. :)

(I'm a fan of ve/ver/vis for someone of unknown/nonbinary gender, but in a case like this I would have just picked he or she and to hell with anyone who complains.)

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In concept it's great, the problem is that when one says e.g. "ve had 23 variables" I for one tend to read it as a bad German/Russian impression.
they. Its grammatically and syntactically valid.

"Where's Mark.... Oh there they are"