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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

That's something I wonder about as a non native speaker: it's singular they but verbs are still plural (they are, not *they is, they come~~s~~). Maybe this will change some day, maybe not. Singular s might die out anyway or maybe because of singular they.