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Old 01-14-2018, 01:31 PM   #87 (permalink)
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On the rare occasions when I don't know someone's gender, I refer to the person by name. If I don't know that, I phrase my sentences so that no pronouns are necessary. As somewhat of a linguistic aesthete, I think it sounds better than using "they" or the contrived "ze/zer."
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