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*I wish English had a proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun. Editing, anyway.
by pygy_ 11y ago
*I wish English had a proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun.
Editing, anyway.
- pluma 11y agoThey. Yes, if you're not familiar with it, it looks like the plural form, but it has been used to denote individuals even before "political correctness" became a thing.
- mdpm 11y agoThon could also use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon edit: that part meant jokingly (please). Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns is far more interesting.
- kenbellows 11y agoThe proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun in English is "they"
- SamReidHughes 11y agoYeah but "that they" is awkward.