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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“They” makes sense as a singular pronoun referring to one individual when it is a hypothetical individual, which would in the real world be multiple individuals but only one at a time. “The person gets a ticket from the machine and they use it to board the train,” for example.
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