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darkestkhan
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Catch-22: Tech Blogging As a Woman
I thought English already had one gender neutral pronoun - "one".
One shouldn't reinvent the wheel.
lucian1900
on July 2, 2012
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It's a general pronoun that happens to be gender-neutral. Not the same meaning as 'he'/'she' or even the almost-correct 'they'.
wccrawford
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That's for an unspecified person, though. You can't use it to talk about one person specifically.
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One shouldn't reinvent the wheel.