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> On a related note, when are we getting genderless pronouns for English? When enough people start using them despite occasionally annoying other people. :) (
by philh 12y ago
> On a related note, when are we getting genderless pronouns for English?
When enough people start using them despite occasionally annoying other people. :)
(I'm a fan of ve/ver/vis for someone of unknown/nonbinary gender, but in a case like this I would have just picked he or she and to hell with anyone who complains.)
- octo_t 12y agothey. Its grammatically and syntactically valid. "Where's Mark.... Oh there they are"
- juliangregorian 12y agoIn concept it's great, the problem is that when one says e.g. "ve had 23 variables" I for one tend to read it as a bad German/Russian impression.