• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    If you just one for one swap you run into weird grammar.

    What do drag want to do?

    Is that right or…?

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      16 hours ago

      same with swapping in ‘they’! i think most pronouns are singular, only ‘they’ is plural due to legacy junk, see:

      • what does he want to do?
      • what does drag want to do?
      • what does the cat want to do?
      • what do they want to do?
      • what do the cats want to do?

      perhaps we should move towards singular they, eg ‘what does they want to do?’