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I still unironically want a singular variant to rise in popularity, don't particularly care what. There are so many times when "they" comes up and I have no clue if we're talking about a person or a group. There's already enough pronoun ambiguity when talking about single subjects without intoducing a dimension of plurality ambiguity.


If you think that's bad, you should see how ambiguous the plurality of the gender-neutral 2nd person pronoun is!


In some geographic areas, we have "you", "y'all" and "all y'all" which correspond to "tú", "vosotros", and "todos vosotros".


New Zealand (maybe Australia too?) has a solution for that in informal speech: yous!




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