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If nothing else, I've learned a man with the name "Moxie Marlinspike" exists today.



They’re kinda legendary - and I can’t deny having a cool name does help with getting people to recognise you.


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I'm having a Mandela-moment - I could swear Moxie came-out as nonbinary or similar - but a quick duckduckgo search says otherwise, so apparently not. My mistake.


“They’re” works perfectly fine (albeit a little grammatically awkward) if you aren’t sure of someone’s gender anyway. Not sure why the above comment felt compelled to correct.


It seems to have become customary to frankly and quickly correct some one's pronoun useage to comply with noun's stated preference.


I thought it was funny


"They" can be used for anyone, any group, singular or plural, in modern english. You can never go wrong with it.




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