Curiosojcurioso@mastodon.social
Oct 12, 2026, 6:27 PMRandom pronoun.
Any suggestion of which pronoun I should have used?
English is not my first language.
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El Duvelleelduvelle@neuromatch.socialOct 12, 2026, 6:34 PM
Oct 12, 2026, 6:39 PM@jcurioso @elduvelle @iris "they"/"them" can be used as singular non-gendered pronouns. (There was a time they were almost exclusively used as plural pronouns, but now they can be either.)
P.S. Mastodon thinks your post is written in Dutch, it seems 😆
BBEGTPKBBEGTPK@mastodon.socialOct 13, 2026, 3:42 AM@diazona
Apparently 'they' for an unknown individual has been in use for a long time. Like we have examples from the 1300s in middle English through to the late 1700s when someone decided the generic pronoun should be 'he'.