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We've had the same pronoun situation here in Sweden. Recently, however, a new pronoun started to become common in everyday speech: 'hen'. It's a mix of 'han' ('
by strictfp 14y ago
We've had the same pronoun situation here in Sweden. Recently, however, a new pronoun started to become common in everyday speech: 'hen'. It's a mix of 'han' ('he') and 'hon'('her'). It's picked up in popularity fast since it solves the specific problems highlighted by this article.
- mkl 14y agoMany people have tried similar things in English[1], but unfortunately none have caught on yet outside relatively small subcultures. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Invented_pronouns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Invented...
- sliverstorm 14y agoI'm not sure I'd say "unfortunately"- most of those invented words are, in my eyes, terrible! "Co"? "Zhim"?
- greyfade 14y agoAnd some are, unfortunately, hard to pronounce. (I.e., Sie and Zhe.)
- darkestkhan 14y agoInterestingly enough there is such pronoun in Icelandic - "það".