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He and she (and apparently now they) are subject pronouns as are han/hon... What is hen if not a subject pronoun?
by hdfbdtbcdg 7y ago
He and she (and apparently now they) are subject pronouns as are han/hon... What is hen if not a subject pronoun?
- mnsc 7y agoIANAL (linguist) so I'm sure you're right. My point is that hen wasn't promoted to use to refer to actual people but to eliminate the annoying "he/she". A construction which often was forgotten when referring to a profession which has a stereotypical gender. Ex: Doctors become "he" and nurses become "she". That was the problem "hen" tried to solve.