He/She... or the One?

[Charmera]

How?

add a gender neutral pronoun (one that isn't confused with plural use and one that isn't dehumanising), and mandate that it be used instead of the traditional sexist pronouns

we can change each and every language as much as necessary

remember, people today speak very differently than how they did years ago; languages change, they are not fixed in stone and they are not sacred

They changed with natural evolution, rather than social tampering. People don't just say things differently because you want them to, it takes natural events for languages to change.

It would be like tampering DNA without properly understanding it. We still don't understand everything about langauge, it's roots and how it forms exactly. No one can predict what new words will be like, or new slang. Would you be able to tell years before things like "Yolo" and "Swag" would be commonly used now? Uprooting pronouns or something that basic in the name of even the most noble goals could have unintended consequences.

[Infected Mushroom]

rewriting the entire dictionary wouldn't be necessary (not every word in every dictionary will have gender issues, though many might), either way... that would be someone else's job (not the regulators themselves); you can rest assured

You have no idea how languages other than English work, do you?

I have at least some idea, having gone to a French-speaking primary school

[The Lone Alliance]

It wouldn't be the first time Tradition and humankind's parochial tendencies has stood in the way of Progress

Sometimes a progressive idea is stupid. This is one of those times.

[New confederate ramenia]

It wouldn't be the first time Tradition and humankind's parochial tendencies has stood in the way of Progress

Sometimes a progressive idea is stupid. This is one of those times.

Sometimes progress isn't even a real thing.

[The Alexanderians]

Or maybe the people who regulate the languages where every noun has a gender don't feel like rewriting the entire goddamn dictionary.

rewriting the entire dictionary wouldn't be necessary (not every word in every dictionary will have gender issues, though many might), either way... that would be someone else's job (not the regulators themselves); you can rest assured

Literalism makes you lose face in an argument, he was using a metaphor.

[New confederate ramenia]

rewriting the entire dictionary wouldn't be necessary (not every word in every dictionary will have gender issues, though many might), either way... that would be someone else's job (not the regulators themselves); you can rest assured

Liberalism makes you lose face in an argument, he was using a metaphor.

I think you meant to say literalism. This is what NSG does to you.

[The Alexanderians]

Liberalism makes you lose face in an argument, he was using a metaphor.

I think you meant to say literalism. This is what NSG does to you.

>.> no spell check *sighs* thank you for pointing that out though

[The Two Jerseys]

You have no idea how languages other than English work, do you?

I have at least some idea, having gone to a French-speaking primary school

Then you should know how the Académie française hates French speakers using English loanwords, or how they got pissed at the French government for adopting the use of the feminine form of "minister" in an official capacity.

Now imagine how apeshit they would go over adding another gender for nouns.

[Infected Mushroom]

I have at least some idea, having gone to a French-speaking primary school

Then you should know how the Académie française hates French speakers using English loanwords, or how they got pissed at the French government for adopting the use of the feminine form of "minister" in an official capacity.

Now imagine how apeshit they would go over adding another gender for nouns.

No I never worked with those people; I was in primary school.

[Aelex]

I have at least some idea, having gone to a French-speaking primary school

Then you should know how the Académie française hates French speakers using English loanwords, or how they got pissed at the French government for adopting the use of the feminine form of "minister" in an official capacity.

Now imagine how apeshit they would go over adding another gender for nouns.

Moreover, it's not like there are any need for adding a gender neutral pronoun.

[Vassenor]

I still don't see what's wrong with the Singular They aside from it not requiring radical change to make work.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

I still don't see what's wrong with the Singular They aside from it not requiring radical change to make work.

There isn't anything wrong with it, it's just hypersensitive politically correct/grammatical nitpicking that would demand an "alternative," in my humble opinion.

[Ifreann]

I still don't see what's wrong with the Singular They aside from it not requiring radical change to make work.

Something something political correctness.

[Nerotysia]

I still don't see what's wrong with the Singular They aside from it not requiring radical change to make work.

There's nothing wrong with it. There is something wrong with making a big deal out of people saying he or she instead of they.

[Sinovet]

Why is there even an argument about this?

We're still like a century and a half from the average person caring in the slightest. Take your time, yeah?

[The Archregimancy]

Pretty sure using "one" as a pronoun just makes you sound pretentious.

One is not entirely sure one wholly agrees.

The trick is to type with a British accent while wearing a monocle, preferably shortly after waxing one's mustache (where one has one; those of the female persuasion can instead type shortly after recovering from a fit of the vapours).

[Infected Mushroom]

Why is there even an argument about this?

We're still like a century and a half from the average person caring in the slightest. Take your time, yeah?

I disagree. I know lots of people who care. So you are Wrong.

[Immoren]

Why is there even an argument about this?

We're still like a century and a half from the average person caring in the slightest. Take your time, yeah?

I disagree. I know lots of people who care. So you are Wrong.

I am pretty sure that's Sinovet, and not Wrong.

[Infected Mushroom]

I disagree. I know lots of people who care. So you are Wrong.

I am pretty sure that's Sinovet, and not Wrong.

what do you mean?

[Vassenor]

Pretty sure using "one" as a pronoun just makes you sound pretentious.

One is not entirely sure one wholly agrees.

The trick is to type with a British accent while wearing a monocle, preferably shortly after waxing one's mustache (where one has one; those of the female persuasion can instead type shortly after recovering from a fit of the vapours).

Well I don't have a Victorian-era RP accent, so I guess that's why it sound wrong to me.

[Ifreann]

I am pretty sure that's Sinovet, and not Wrong.

what do you mean?

You capitalised the word "Wrong", as though it was a proper noun.

[Quokkastan]

Pretty sure using "one" as a pronoun just makes you sound pretentious.

One is not entirely sure one wholly agrees.

The trick is to type with a British accent while wearing a monocle, preferably shortly after waxing one's mustache (where one has one; those of the female persuasion can instead type shortly after recovering from a fit of the vapours).

I have decided that whenever one mentions a "British accent," otherwise unspecified, I am going to assume they mean "Geordie."

I encourage others to do likewise.

[The Two Jerseys]

what do you mean?

You capitalised the word "Wrong", as though it was a proper noun.

But the word "Wrong" can't be a common noun, because being common and not proper would hurt one's feelings.

Clearly we need to abolish lowercase letters, because feelings.

[Infected Mushroom]

You capitalised the word "Wrong", as though it was a proper noun.

But the word "Wrong" can't be a common noun, because being common and not proper would hurt one's feelings.

Clearly we need to abolish lowercase letters, because feelings.

Nope

[Striton]

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