talkative: (let me think)
Jakob "Jackie" Svensson ([personal profile] talkative) wrote 2020-09-16 12:50 pm (UTC)

[He nods at the last sentences - he's adjusted like that before himself. Altered voice, or body, or style of dress, to lean a bit more into the other side.]

So that's why you use pronouns like you just don't know what it is? [Because for all he knows, that's how singular they is used in English. When you don't know yet what the person you're speaking of is, or when they're not any specific person.] To keep the ambiguity. [It's not a bad idea, and the thought shows in his thoughtful voice. It would probably be a lot less anxiety inducting than always having to wonder if people who came away with different expectations will discuss him.]

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