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In this article it would have been fine to use singular ‘they’ especially since each fictive person is really a group of people, so even read as plural ‘they’ w
by sorbits 17y ago
In this article it would have been fine to use singular ‘they’ especially since each fictive person is really a group of people, so even read as plural ‘they’ works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- drbaskin 17y agoThis is more of a curiosity than anything, but one can always use Michael Spivak's gender-neutral pronouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun
- 3pt14159 17y agoOh man I wish these were in widespread use. It would simplify things greatly for everyone. I kinda wish HN just started using them and it spread out from here.
- paulgb 17y agoWikipedia has a nice chart of gender neutral pronouns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Summary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Summary
- Qz 17y agoThere are a bunch of different proposed gender neutral pronouns... which is part of why no one particular set has caught on yet.
- NeilCJames 17y agoI use 'singular they' because at some point 'one' started to connote pretentiousness. I don't see how Spivak pronouns solve that problem, but this off-topic sub-discussion has convinced me to go back to using 'one' (for disambiguation's sake).