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But wasn't it generally for an unknown person, like "I heard someone but I'm not seeing them"? Not to make a non-gendered pronoun for a particular person?
Moving goalposts now?
The OP is about UKlG "forgetting" about "they" as a gender neutral, and they aren't talking about for an unknown person, they're talking about a specific person. I'm not moving the goalpost, this is the exact thing we're discussing.
What I responded to said this:
It wasn't always a plural pronoun. You were just plain wrong. So you moved the goalposts so you could be "right". And I pointed that out. It's not that hard to follow, you know.
Perhaps your original wording was just bad?