Timeline for True or False: "English lacks a standard gender-neutral second-person plural pronoun."
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| Feb 28, 2021 at 21:34 | comment | added | nnnnnn | "but no one uses 'you' to -address- a group anyway." - Yes they do. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 22:59 | comment | added | Ana Nimbus | "That guy is pregnant" could also sound wrong because "guy" is not feminine. (But note that it is females that (typically) have the potential for pregnancy, not the feminine. My yacht is feminine, but I can't make another yacht by getting her pregnant.) | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 22:51 | comment | added | jsw29 | Isn't it rather problematic to bring guys into a discussion of pronouns in the first place? | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 21:35 | history | answered | Mitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |