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Re: 3rd person singular neutral X 3rd person plural ?



also sprach Andre Felipe Machado <andremachado@techforce.com.br> [2008.05.15.0211 +0100]:
> A- third person singular neutral (it, the Debian Project)
> B- third person plural (they, the Debian Project)

One project, two projects. It, they.

I realise they can be used in the singular when talking about
someone and avoiding the gender specification, but the Debian
project is not gendered, so it's "it".

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