Peter Seibel says everything that needs to be said about they used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun in lieu of he, she, or he/she. Shorter Seibel: It was used long before the no-singular-they rule was invented, it works well, and it's not going away.
Read it, love it, refer stick-in-the-mud he proponents to it.
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It IS going away, however, when I am the copyeditor. I don't care about Chaucer and Jane and such; I think it's confusing. so there. plbttttt!
Yeah, "you don't have to use it, but you have to get used to it" is what I tell my occasional persnickety student.
I don't think it's confusing unless you use it in an ambiguous context (in which case, a number of perfectly decent pronouns can be confusing).
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