On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 06:03:22PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-users wrote: > Strictly, "their" is plural in English
No, it is not. "They" and "their" have been used as gender-neutral, singular pronouns for centuries. Even if that wasn't the case, it's widely accepted in modern colloquial usage. We can't just ossify the language because some people don't like that a word can have multiple, context-sensitive meanings. "They/their" isn't even unique in that manner when it comes to pronouns; "we" has been used as a singular pronoun for royalty for centuries, and "you" can be both singular and plural depending on the context -- at least in some American dialects. Eric _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
