It's a great move. It might cause a slight confusion when translating to other languages, but that's not really important. Some languages (including my native

It's a great move. It might cause a slight confusion when translating to other languages, but that's not really important. Some languages (including my native language) had always used gender-neutral pronouns, and it has never caused me (or anyone else that I know of) any problems. So I think the fear that it might destroy the language or cause mass-confusion is pointless. [edit] Aside from Persian, it seems[1] that Turkic, Filipino, Nahuatl, Malay, Indonesian, Georgian, Esperanto (which is not a natural language), Estonian, Armenian, Bengali, Nepali and probably tons of other languages have gender-neutral pronouns. None of them are as widely-used as Chinese, Spanish, English or Arabic though, and that's why many take gender-specific pronouns for granted... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun