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How exactly does one define "words that are not part of the English language"? We don't have an Académie française. Does he also avoid jargon and technical term

• tzs 7y ago
  > Does he also avoid jargon and technical terms? That's not really an appropriate comparison. Jargon and technical terms are defined for specific topics. Within those topic they actually have distinct meanings and using them concisely conveys ideas that would be difficult or time consuming to convey otherwise. That doesn't seem to be the case for alternative gender neutral pronouns. "Per", "ve", "xe", "yo", "ze", "zhe", etc. all as far as I can tell mean the same as gender neutral "they".
  • Pfhreak 7y ago
    > as far as I can tell mean the same as gender neutral "they". Sometimes I forget that in English we don't allow multiple. words with the same meaning. /s If someone asks you to use a nickname, you use it (despite it meaning the same thing as their legal name). A pronoun is no different and no more complex.