If u press the button, language magically shifts such that pronouns expand to auto include information about general demographics, like age range and marital status. (e.g. sheil=old married woman, sheim=old single woman)
Assume this shift is automatic/easy, no extra effort. You:
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ok but have you noticed that writing dialogue between a man & a woman is so much easier because you can just keep using pronouns unambiguously
it would be pretty neat if you could write ~most dialogue like that
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We have this in Vietnam. It's kinda nifty at times, but definitely pigeonholes you a bit. Do you always want to feel like "auntie" or "teacher"? It seems limiting to me.
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In Turkish, when we say "O", it does not say anything about the thing you mention. O does not have a gender, personality or anything. It is not like "he", "she", "it", "sheil" or "sheim". I think that's more beautiful.
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I don’t feel strongly one way or another, just chose “don’t press” out of fear of unforeseen consequences.
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Completely indifferent to the button being pressed or not. We already encode some of this information in language already ("the dude comes up to me and says..." vs "this geezer was trying to tell me..."). If it's automatic/easy, who cares?
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I like the idea of conveying more information efficiently, but I fear it might detract from literature. I pressed the button anyway.
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why does language insist on loading pronouns with nothing but useless information. gender? age? marital status? who gives a shit?
give me pronouns that describe moral philosophies or views on the establishment or some shit. says a lot more about a person than marriage does.
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too interesting not to press, no fucking clue on whether the effect would end up net negative or net positive for society
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