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People thinking like that would be happy making New English and in fact is probably making one already. For me, as someone with no grammatical genders at all i
by inawarminister 6y ago
People thinking like that would be happy making New English and in fact is probably making one already.
For me, as someone with no grammatical genders at all in his native language, I don't think there are any real differences between using grammatical gendered pronouns or not. In some real way, gendered pronouns help in parsing subjects much more easily than otherwise. We do use proper noun-as-pronouns by default more than English or other gendered languages so that might be one way of avoiding ambiguity
- no-s 6y agoYes, the distinctive pronouns help in reducing ambiguity. However some people are taking offense at the insufficiency of gender specification and asking us to add more pronouns to remedy the insult. It might be simpler if we didn't need a gendered pronoun to avoid offense, especially if the distinction is irrelevant in the context.