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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 5279459" data-attributes="member: 6562">Umbran: How the heck do you get from describing how technical writing -- and by YOUR OWN extension, game writing -- should look:  ... to this weaksauce "no right answer" cruft?  Even if we were talking about all things, though, singular "they" would still have no utility. There's no such thing as "linguistic Darwinism" within a single language. You're confusing "provides a benefit" with "hasn't killed the species yet".Seriously, your argument implies the human appendix is useful. Your argument is flawed. Again, the human appendix. Or rats, or politicians, or heroine abuse. Watch this:* When the new doctor brought up the head nurse's insubordination in the meeting, everyone agreed they were out of line.In your sentence, there's an ambiguity between the doctor and the nurse. In my example (assuming we are allowing singular "they"), the ambiguity has expanded to include everyone in the meeting, as well as the doctor (singular) and the head nurse (singular).Singular "they": it never helps."Heh heh, you said 'head nurse', heh he heh", -- N</blockquote>