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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So I went and stalked them. They largely ignore that ‘their’ exists, which is amazing, since their texts are otherwise near-perfect English.

A few examples of their using ‘their’: 1

[F]or the police to chase their had to be a reasonable suspicion […]

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Their approval among there base of shias has only gone up since the conflict started

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[…] let people know about their bias […]