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Tangentially, I prefer the Spivak pronouns sets. They feel more "natural" to me than spiking the distributions of X and V.
by Semiapies 11y ago
Tangentially, I prefer the Spivak pronouns sets. They feel more "natural" to me than spiking the distributions of X and V.
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- randommodnar 11y agoIt's definitely more natural. You'll never hear any significant number of English speakers saying bullshit like "ve, vis".
- mirimir 11y agoYeah, I get that. I normally use they/them/their. But then I'm stuck in plural. That does generally flow better, but sometimes... Anyway, I used to like s/he, but there's nothing elegant for him/her and his/hers. Edit: Oops, this was in the wrong subthread, so now I have maybe a duplicate. Damn.
- rwallace 11y agoPersonally I like David Brin's solution from the Uplift novels. Most of the things we want to say have nothing to do with sex and apply regardless of gender, so if we aren't going to let the same words double for male and gender-neutral usage, keep the traditional, simple words for the latter usage and move the former to something else. Thus, in Brin's novels, 'man' refers to any human with no implication of gender, and the words for a specifically male or female human are 'mel' and 'fem'.