On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 03:26:05AM +0000, Eric Pruitt via Gnupg-users wrote: > 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.
Thou hast raised some interesting points, but the overriding point here should be that a pronoun, any pronoun, doesn't fit there; the sentence wants an article. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 library.indianapolis.iu.edu
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