Also, please be civil this person was actually pretty chill about getting totally destroyed for this crazy take. I mostly just wanted to document this moment.

  • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    English needs a gender neutral singular pronoun other than they.

    I vote for “e, em, ey, eir”

    “Have you called Jace?”

    “No, never spoken to em. What’s eir phone number?”

    Because Jace is a gender neutral name, and the second speaker doesn’t know eir gender, a singular neutral pronoun is perfect. Rather than using the funky plural pronoun that already has a use for groups.