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	{{User:LeftyGreenMario/sig}} 23:28, 5 June 2010 (EDT)		{{User:LeftyGreenMario/sig}} 23:28, 5 June 2010 (EDT)

			:::Yes, the source was a blog. If that's not enough for you, ask any linguist, they (ha!) will say that ''they'' may be used as a gender-neutral singular pronoun (I'm studying linguistics, too). Who would know if not language experts? You simply say "this is wrong" and "that is wrong", without giving any reason whatsoever. Where do the rules come from? Language (and language rules) are made by the people, not by grammar books. If people start to use ''they'' in a singular sense, you cannot claim they all talk "wrongly", but rather the pronoun is changing its meaning. Of course this does not necessarily mean that singular ''they'' is acceptable in formal writing, but from everything I know, it is. Rewriting every such sentence seems like unnecessary work to me. {{User:Time Q/sig}} 22:18, 7 June 2010 (UTC)