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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by bergenty on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:14AM (#33595144)
He, it’s not a group of people.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by veidr on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:35AM (#33595494)
Sorry, we're changing that.

The only question is whether we (proponents of gender-nonspecific and plural-nonspecific "they") will beat them (people who misspell "lose" as "loose" — remember, it only takes a simple majority[1] (and a bit of time for people to get used to it) to change the language(!)).

[1]: As we all are undoubtedly aware, the spelling "cancelled" was canceled via this mechanism, one or two decades ago.

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by lioeters on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:24AM (#33595296)
It's been acceptable since the 14th century to use "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by edflsafoiewq on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:31AM (#33595410)
> It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by everybodyknows on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:41AM (#33596748)
Has Bezos specified "they" as preferred pronoun?
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by 1auralynn on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:47AM (#33595688)
The commenter is talking about Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, read the article.
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by bamboozled on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:09PM (#33598275)
His new partner seems to be an influence.
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