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  1. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    English doesn't just borrow from other languages, it follows them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and searches their pockets for spare grammar.
  2. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    oh no, people use something in the hopes of increasing its use! how utterly bizarre. seriously, with an attitude like that, how are we supposed to get anything done?
  3. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    I think people tend to use zhi/hir and various other spellings. There is no accepted standard. False analogy. There is a need for gender-neutral pronouns in English; there is no need for an alternate first person singular pronoun.
  4. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Except you're not meant to use "it" for hermaphrodites (excuse me, intersexual persons).
  5. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    I fail to see how this is different from using any other word the reader doesn't know. Besides, people will assume that any word you use does exist because you used it. So they'll say "oh, this is a pronoun? maybe I should look it up!" and voila, mission accomplished.
  6. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Why at the cost of good writing? Because someone had voted for it and I didn't want to influence the poll results.
  7. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Edited the poll so it makes a little more sense.
  8. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    But that is ambiguous. Also the reason I don't use the male form; I'm not particularly fond of ambiguity in languages. In German, the pronoun "sie" is both second person feminine, second person plural, and second person polite form. "Ihr" is third person plural and the possessive form of all the...
  9. opaltiger

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Spivak.
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