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Old November 28, 2018, 03:49 PM
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The RAE article about leƭsmo in "Diccionario panhispƔnico de dudas" may be worth reviewing for what the RAE's position is on this topic.

Based on this article, I think that in those regions which where "le" is accepted as a direct object for a single human male, "les" is also likely to be accepted as a direct object for a group of people that is not known to be all-female.

The article also discusses several situations where we native speakers of English might perceive a direct object but native speakers of Spanish might perceive an indirect object.
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