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[rone]

English 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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[opadit.livejournal.com]

The language must not evolve! No changes, ever! We must freeze current usage and never add new syntax or vocabulary to our language!

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

In fact, we've gone too far already.

We must reverse the Great Vowel Shift!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Things like 'hir' and 'zie' aren't evolution as much as Frankensteinian grafting.

[opadit.livejournal.com]

Whereas Frankensteinian just rolls trippingly off the tongue.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I blame the Germans.