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What do you mean they?
He clearly says he's a singular person
They is, and has been for a very long time, perfectly valid for singular use.
Most people I've encounted do it all the time without noticing between sentences.
It's extremely confusing. Its a he, no doubt
Where you you see a gender qualifier in the post? If you don’t know you don’t assume because you turn into a donkey or something like that.
A gender what?
How is there a doubt that it's a he.
I doubt. What tells you it’s a he.. that’s what I’m asking you to do. Show me, prove me it’s a he.
He uses thinkpad, what more proof do you want
Wow. You’re dumb and sexist. Have a good live buddy.
Good *life
And thanks, i will
what? where? look at the username, that's clearly anonymous, the hacker group.
You mean the hacker known as four chen
In english, they stands for both plural and gender-neural (when you don't know whether the person you're referring to is male or female).
There no doubt that it's a male speaking
You do you
Thanks, i will
They has been used to refer to an unspecified individual since before you were born.
What you mean unspecified?
It says right there
That's not really the point.
A comedy of errors, act IV, scene 3