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Dec. 4th, 2003 08:45 pmEnglish 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: 2003-12-05 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like them. They're amazing musicians and I wish more people could hear their stuff. Want me to send you a copy of their LP? It's got 5 songs on it, including whatever they played on the radio.
Talk to you later.