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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by pak on Monday July 19, 2010 @10:26AM (#1528745)
"They is so smart!" --> the apparent subject-verb disagreement is just too unfamiliar to most ears.
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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by socksy on Monday July 19, 2010 @11:10AM (#1528914)
You are still supposed to use plural declensions despite talking about a single person.

For instance: "if such a person existed, they were very quiet about their existence". Note that it's not "they was", which is grammatically incorrect.

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Re:What a Programmer Sees When He Watches Inception by elblanco on Sunday July 25, 2010 @12:44PM (#1545809)
That's because it should read, "they are so smart".
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