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Johngibb on May 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: None of Us Knows What We're Doing

How about "None of us knows what they're doing"? Hasn't it become generally accepted that 'they' can be used as a gender neutral singular pronoun?

dvdhsu on May 23, 2011 [–]

"they're" refers to a party in third person, while it should refer to "us" which is in first person.

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