This is one you can't wade into without getting harmed, but I think a writer of my age (61) has a hard time not hearing 'they' as a plural. /1
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Then when people use it to refer to others or ask people to use it to refer to themselves, I hear them as pluralizing these subjects, as saying of themselves or others that they are more than one. /2
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Which always makes me think that something profound is going on, like an insight into or a new form of human subjectivity is suggested just in the pronoun change. But I'm sure it is not always intended. But it is an interesting head spinner too. How many?
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Replying to @CrispinSartwell
Personally, I think that new form of human subjectivity is the rise of solipsism as the dominant ontological mode.
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