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Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS by gnomewascool on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:09AM (#26722679)
RMS's stance is that "they" is not a grammatically valid singular pronoun, so he'll not use it.

If somebody told you that their preferred pronoun was "we", I doubt you'd use it.

> not every transgender person wants to be thrown into an "other" category with their pronouns

RMS's pronoun "perse" is gender-neutral (not non-gender).

The stance is IMO crazy, but he does have a point that using "they" as both singular and plural introduces ambiguity.

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Re:A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS by dpatterbee on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @06:45AM (#26722982)
It does introduce ambiguity in certain sentences, but pronouns already do that and we don't have much issue using them. The solution is to just not use the pronoun if it's ambiguous, pronouns are just a convenience.
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