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Dec. 4th, 2003 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roneEnglish already has perfectly useful gender-neutral pronouns: it, its. Use them. Do not use they, them for singular objects. Do not use the abhorrent, artificial 'hir', 'zie', 'blim', 'gur', or whatever. Yes, people can be called 'it'. Deal with it.
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:58 pm (UTC)Would you consider 'someone' to be singular? I asked someone if they wanted to give you something to talk about. They told me it wasn't up to them. I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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Date: 2003-12-05 06:33 am (UTC)Oops, was that my outside voice?
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Date: 2003-12-05 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-05 02:08 pm (UTC)