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		ars on July 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? > Those sentences sound completely normal and grammatical to me. Only if you are talking about more than one person. If you are talking about a single person those sentences sound bizarre.

moocowduckquack on July 21, 2013 [–]

'They' is fine as a singular, for instance the person that you have just replied to, they say that you are completely wrong, and I agree with them. See?

Look up the "epicene they".

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