Recommendation: The gender-neutral pronoun

Jessica recommends…

The gender-neutral pronoun: grammatical necessity, consciousness raiser, and after 150 years still an epic fail
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It is an interesting brief history of gender neutral pronouns over the past couple of hundred years.

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Posted by on October 10th, 2010 at 04:00 pm

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3 Responses to “Recommendation: The gender-neutral pronoun”

  1. kiran
    October 11th, 2010 at 12:06 am |

    i prefer ”ze” or singular ”they”, because thon means tuna in french and that feels weird to me.

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    Hodge Podge replied:
    October 11th, 2010 at 10:38 am

    A GPN which translates to ‘tuna’ can only be a good thing.

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  2. Marissa
    October 14th, 2010 at 7:01 am |

    Oh dear, that’s amazing. Love the fail, for the sake of a laugh. :D

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