Demanding people learn and process "zie", "hir" and twenty other 'pronouns' on the fly fucks over all but the most verbally adept.
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You get a special word people have to use to refer to you. It's called YOUR NAME. You don't get your own damn grammatical inflections too.
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I can't get normal gender'd pronouns, or even tenses straight half time w/out effort. prefer 'it', and often regress to 'we' vs I.
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Interesting!
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to me, gendering language is a stressful cultural/linguistic quirk. Only way to kill it is to overwhelm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism#Sociology …
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At the time we laughed it off as some kind of misguided Esperanto-like thing. If only.
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We should never have taught prog children about the "laws" of grammar. Now they think they can be legislated.
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Funny thing, had a semi-infamous friend in the 90s who was into the xie/xir stuff.
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