For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
oh im not talking about that.
i’m talking about quasi-legalese phrases like “he/she may […]” “if he/she agrees”, you know. the places where “they” would be both more grammatical and easier to understand
I have been learning Spanish with Babbel and the
El/Ella Compra
Will never not sound wrong to me. El & Ella are two people, they Compran something they don’t Compra it.
But They as a singular in English absolutely just rolls off my tongue, makes absolute sense, it is what I use.
he/she refers to a single individual, they can refer to multiple
They can also refer to an individual though.
yeah, but its an ambiguity that can be picked at in legal settings. He/she makes it very clear that only singular person is being referred to
Alright, that’s fair, they did specifically say legalese.
I guess I found my hill:
If you are worried about your sentence leaving ambiguity for your pronouns, then write a better sentence.