On 6/22/20 5:59 AM, Will Mengarini wrote:
* Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> [20-06/20=Sa 11:58 -0400]:
Solve the problem of establishing a good set of gender-neutral
pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other
languages) - then let's come back and debate colors.
Here you go:
co cos cos coself co's
she her hers herself she's
he his his himself he's
it its its itself it's
See <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/co#English>.
The "co/cos/coself/co's" pronouns were first introduced in 1970 in
the U.S commune named "Twin Oaks", which was founded in 1967. It was
modeled on the community described in B.F Skinner's /Walden Two/;
see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia>.
They're in both Wiktionary and Wikipedia:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_third-person_singular_pronouns
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns
It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them.
They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate
singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral.
Miles
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