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Re: Use Of Punctuation In A Post And What Is Annoying or Confusing

For me, the biggest 'turn-off' in using "they" as a gender-neutral term is that "they" is plural. Example (emphasis mine):

If a person wants to use their car to advertise that they graduated from an institution, then they would want to announce that they are one graduate.


The change from singular to plural, then back to singular, is troubling to me as a literalist. From my experience, engineers are nothing if not literal.
I'd prefer "one" or "his or her" to "they;" even though "his or her" is a bit more cumbersome, it is more proper (if only in my eyes).
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