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grinapo avatar grinapo commented on July 27, 2024 1
Second singular person problem

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clarfonthey avatar clarfonthey commented on July 27, 2024

In English, "they go" is always the way it's said. The singular they is always treated the same as plural they for conjugating verbs.

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grinapo avatar grinapo commented on July 27, 2024

As I said: this form is not known here around (and possibly Europe) so if you don't tell us "it's always treated as" then we won't know. The point is whether you want to educate people about their usage or don't (asking that from people speaking English as second, and in one case even first languaguage) resulted mixed answers, so I'd say it's not obvious for everyone.

I am at the "never heard of that, and people have linked your page as an explanation about its usage" end of the pipe.

But you can close this issue if you think it's not justified. Thanks for your time.

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frei0 avatar frei0 commented on July 27, 2024

It would be nice to have example conjugations and contractions with auxiliary verbs like "to be" and "to have". Like "xe's".

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colinphill-reify avatar colinphill-reify commented on July 27, 2024

+1 to this. I recently looked up a set of pronouns I was unfamiliar with, xey/xem, to try to figure out whether to use plural verbs as I would with they/them. The examples simply don't demonstrate that.

One simple change that may meet this need is to use the present tense in one or more of the sentences. "Xey went to the park" leaves grammatical number ambiguous, but "Xey is going to the park" does not.

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