• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Didā€¦ did the tables not help? They can be used as either singular or plural but itā€™s always third person.

    If I was speaking directly to you, and you used they/them pronouns. I wouldnā€™t convert the sentence ā€œYou are tallā€ to ā€œThey are tallā€. Those 2 sentences mean entirely different things. Thatā€™s what the ā€œpersonā€ part of a pronoun is. Itā€™s who youā€™re referring to. 1st person is the person speaking, 2nd person is the person being spoken to, and 3rd person is someone about whom you are speaking.

    1st - ā€œI am tall.ā€

    2nd - ā€œYou are tall.ā€

    3rd - ā€œHe/She/They is/are tall.ā€

    1st - ā€œJe suis grand.ā€

    2nd - ā€œTu/Vous es grand.ā€

    3rd - ā€œIl/Elle est grand(e).ā€

    Does this help? Tu is already not gendered. Vous isnā€™t gendered either. Itā€™s not the same as ā€œtheyā€ at all. It means an entirely different thing.

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      You/they arenā€™t gendered already. You/They are tall. He/She is tall

      People started using them as pronouns even though you would never say ā€œthey is tallā€

      Itā€™s the same thing

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        No youā€™d say ā€œThey are tall.ā€ Because thatā€™s how we conjugate that in English. They has always been used as both a singular and a plural because we donā€™t always know the gender of who were talking about. In French il/ils is the default when you donā€™t know a 3rd personā€™s gender. Il/ils is masculine.

        It isnā€™t. Iā€™m a French speaker, Iā€™m telling you it isnā€™t. Vous is second person singular or plural. They is third person singular or plural. They is NEVER second person. Vous is NEVER third person. This is how the language is used around the world today.