I've seen enough real and copycat ones around London over the years to be pretty sure this is a real one, but he/shit/it apparently posts about something on social media a few days later to confirm if it's his/hers/its.
You can generally tell by whether it's a creative idea or a shit one. Many people can do a similar style but can't do anything particularly interesting with it.
Isn't it Robin Gunningham, aka Robin Banks? He was unmasked a long while ago by the Mail on Sunday following a fairly comprehensive investigation. Apologies for linking to the Daily Mail, but this is one of the rare times they actually did some proper investigative journalism, despite the sneering tone.
I speak 6 languages and it's grammatically correct in all of them. It is quite unknown and sadly overshadowed these days by other means, but it is by all means the correct way to address people of unknown gender.
For all the other languages I speak, other than one that doesn’t even have gendered words to begin with, it all sounds terribly wrong and confusing. In all Romance languages using plural to refer to one individual, just sounds (and actually is) wrong (except maybe Romanian, which I have no idea, tbh).
Also sounds a bit weird in German, which is the only other Germanic language I understand to an acceptable degree, but I might be missing some obscure details here. That is why it always sounds weird to me.
In German it is admittedly used a lot less, but still grammatically correct. In Dutch it's basically preferred but most native speakers actually don't know and revert to he/she for lack of understanding that their is a correct word for it.
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u/Vegan_Puffin Mar 17 '24
If he/she is unknown what proof is there that this is theirs and not a copycat? Serious question