Woah, you're claiming the presence of a vagina contributed to the accident? I'd love to hear how you think that's a problem? You do realize women have been flying professionally for (albeit not in) the US military since at least 1942 (establishment of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron)?
The grammar is fine. Saying "the pilot did not listen to the instructor sitting next to them" is perfectly fine in English and has been so since at least the '90s when I first learned the language as a child.
Singular they has always been valid in modern English, going back to before Shakespeare (he used it a couple of times). The idea that it isn't comes from contrarian mid-18th-century prescriptivists who wanted to actively change the language people were already using.
>especially since gender seems to be a contributing factor to the incident
Can you elaborate on that?
Woah, you're claiming the presence of a vagina contributed to the accident? I'd love to hear how you think that's a problem? You do realize women have been flying professionally for (albeit not in) the US military since at least 1942 (establishment of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron)?
The grammar is fine. Saying "the pilot did not listen to the instructor sitting next to them" is perfectly fine in English and has been so since at least the '90s when I first learned the language as a child.
Singular they has always been valid in modern English, going back to before Shakespeare (he used it a couple of times). The idea that it isn't comes from contrarian mid-18th-century prescriptivists who wanted to actively change the language people were already using.
It's been perfectly fine at least as far back as the 14th century.
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At best, the use of singular they is far more complicated than you're stating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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