Only momentary confusion. You will probably never again be confused by &quot;ve&quot;, for the rest of your life, based on just this tiny passing exposure to it (assuming, of course, you ever see it again.. which is obviously not certain).<p>The idea of overloading the plural &quot;they&quot; to mean a gender-neutral singular nominative has some inherent problems you can&#x27;t just learn away, because context is often not sufficient to pinpoint a meaning from the possibilities.