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I had to google this "ve". At first I thought that you were mimicking a German accent, which did not make sense here.
by 98qz99191 10y ago
I had to google this "ve". At first I thought that you were mimicking a German accent, which did not make sense here.
- GotAnyMegadeth 10y agoI'm guessing the result was: Ve, a proposed gender-neutral pronoun [0] I hadn't heard of it either. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE
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- solipsism 10y agoI'm just personally tired of our lack of appropriate gender-neutral pronouns. I guess it got me some downvotes due to misunderstanding.
- AndrewDucker 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- solipsism 10y agoDoesn't do it for me. It leads to confusion in a couple different contexts. I think we should be open to intelligently refactoring our language, instead of being slaves to organic change.
- burnstek 10y agoBut "ve" doesn't create confusion?
- solipsism 10y agoOnly momentary confusion. You will probably never again be confused by "ve", for the rest of your life, based on just this tiny passing exposure to it (assuming, of course, you ever see it again.. which is obviously not certain). The idea of overloading the plural "they" to mean a gender-neutral singular nominative has some inherent problems you can't just learn away, because context is often not sufficient to pinpoint a meaning from the possibilities.