From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 12/14/25 9:35 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > And that last paragraph shows where I stand on third-person   
   > pronouns. I didn't even think twice about typing "they" and   
   > "their". In this, I am a Janeite.   
   >   
   > [I wish I could find the comment someone left on a pronoun article   
   > declaring emphatically that people shouldn't use "they" and   
   > "their" as singular pronouns--and did so themself when using   
   > pronouns to refer back to "someone" or something similar.  On the   
   > other hand, this is apparently fairly common.]   
      
   I sometimes use "they" when referring to an indefinite individual.   
   However, I don't think a person should declare oneself a committee.   
      
   In the dystopia of Ayn Rand's _Anthem_, plural pronouns are used   
   exclusively, and using a first person singular pronoun is a capital   
   crime. Most people don't know such pronouns ever existed.   
      
   --   
   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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