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I agree with you but changing the basic grammatical rules of a language is a difficult coordination problem and you can't just do it by posting that it would be

• yowzadave 1y ago
  There's an interesting series of fantasy novels by the author Graydon Saunders, occasionally recommended on this website, that almost entirely avoids the use of pronouns: https://www.goodreads.com/series/242525-commonweal https://www.goodreads.com/series/242525-commonweal . The avoidance of pronouns is a stylistic choice, but not a didactic one—you might not even realize it until you're a third of the way through the book and you start questioning whether a character you'd imagined as male or female might actually be a different gender, or not gendered at all. It's interesting to see how the author achieves this in dense but readable prose, without drawing attention to it.
  • kybernetikos 1y ago
    Ancillary Justice is told from the point of view of a character of a culture that doesn't draw the distinction in language. It is occasionally remarked on, but generally from the point of view of the main character being always a bit paranoid that they'll cause offense by not referring to characters of other cultures and languages correctly.
• ninalanyon 1y ago
  Which grammatical rule is that? Singular they has been used in English for over four centuries. Using they instead of he or she does not break any rules.
  • ameliaquining 1y ago
    The proposal was to get rid of "he" and "she", which is a very different proposition.