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Unrelated, but how come you've chosen to use the `xe` pronoun? I couldn't find any mention of it in Zbigniew's blog.
by asymmetric 9y ago
Unrelated, but how come you've chosen to use the `xe` pronoun?
I couldn't find any mention of it in Zbigniew's blog.
- jwilk 9y agoFWIW, "Zbigniew" is a male forename.
- Nadya 9y agoFrom what I can tell, they use it for everyone. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785977 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785977 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665518 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580113 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553959
- philh 9y agoI've sometimes used it (or ve) in the past, because there's no good gender-neutral pronoun and I don't like to assume. (This is partly a politeness thing and partly an accuracy thing.) Occasionally when I would do so, people would get confrontational about it, so I mostly stopped. But now that means I sometimes waste time trying to find someone's gender even though that's totally irrelevant, and/or try to work around needing a pronoun at all, and/or use "they" even though I don't like it. None of these solutions is great. (Btw, I don't parse you as confrontational. Comments like yours wouldn't have bothered me.)