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by dgellow·8y ago·view on hn ↗
I’m not a native English speaker myself, and I don’t live in a place with a majority of native speakers, so maybe that’s why. I got confused reading your comment as I thought that you were talking about something that I missed from the article (a link, or something else), thus I shared this feedback.

Though I’m not sure why people downvoted my comment. I haven’t expressed anything against the use of neutral pronouns (though that’s unexpected when the author is clearly a man). And I clearly specified that was a detail, not something to give importance to.

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FWIW as a native English speaker I didn’t even notice that they (hah) used they. It sounds natural when you don’t know (or don’t care to emphasize) the gender of the singular person in question. Just trying to be helpful for the next time you notice that construct :)