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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: 2003-12-05 05:48 pm (UTC)A survey of classics finds 75 different widely regarded authors use the they/their construction to no ill effect of their status as authors.
Sure. But I wouldn't hire 'em as editors.
I also consider George Bernard Shaw primarily a playwright...and rarely an editor.
Hey, no one's going to change my mind that written English has become a morass, lacking precision and elegance, precisely because writers of some renown have bastardized usage for their own purposes.
Next up, VERBING NOUNS!