Why is “They” a common alternative pronoun to he/she, considering it works for a single individual in some contexts, but in others it sounds like multiple people. “They’re watching a movie” or “they went to a concert” for example.
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Because that’s what society has decided on using. We (as a society) toyed around with other options for decades and none of them caught on (see also Xe/Xer/Xis, etc). Finally, a small group of people decided they wanted to use “they” and they did and it caught on, and now “they” is both singular and plural as context demands
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