Thread:Xerped/@comment-169.233.175.84-20180731235257/@comment-169.233.175.84-20180801041517

Whether or not I refer to myself as we is not pertinent. You can claim it's gramatically incorrect, and I can claim it depends on the context. I could claim that up means down, and because words have no more meaning than that which we give them, you couldn't "prove" me wrong beyond showing me the defenition of "up" in a dictionary. Google is the largest and most widely accepted dictionary ever, and it states that "they" can refer to a single person of unspecified gender.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=define+they&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=active

I agree that it can at times lead to convolusion, and that it would make more sense for English to have two different pronouns for a single person of unspecified gender and a group of more than one person, but alas, no launguage is perfect, so we must work with what we have. That being said, I agree that avoiding pronouns altogethor when discussing a person of unknown gender makes the most sense of all, when possible.