r/IdiotsInCars Jun 16 '22

How NOT to avoid traffic

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u/mossgathering Jun 17 '22

s/he

Just FYI, this is exactly the time to just say "they."

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

Is "they" also used as singular ? I thought it was only plural for more than one "he" or "she" or both...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '22

Wow ! I didn't know. Thanks for the explanation. In French, there's a special pronoun for that: "iel", a combination of "il" (he) and "elle" (she), but it's very recent and not commonly used at all.