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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2016, 06:54:51 PM »
Never even heard of any of these before.

Whatever happened to just using the word "they"?


They/them would work. Would probably sound really weird sometimes. Though maybe not as weird as saying a person's name over and over. :laugh:
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2016, 07:54:49 PM »
Haven't read it, but wouldn't "individual" or (in my case) "loyal subject" suffice?

As someone with multiple personality disorder I am truly offended  :zoinks:

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2016, 09:57:37 PM »
Never even heard of any of these before.

Whatever happened to just using the word "they"?


They/them would work. Would probably sound really weird sometimes. Though maybe not as weird as saying a person's name over and over. :laugh:

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2016, 03:13:06 PM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2016, 07:35:46 PM »
Never even heard of any of these before.

Whatever happened to just using the word "they"?


They/them would work. Would probably sound really weird sometimes. Though maybe not as weird as saying a person's name over and over. :laugh:

  Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack ...  :zoinks:
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2016, 08:48:05 PM »
Haven't read it, but wouldn't "individual" or (in my case) "loyal subject" suffice?

As someone with multiple personality disorder I am truly offended  :zoinks:

We are all individuals. :zoinks:

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2016, 04:52:32 AM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2016, 04:53:13 AM »
Haven't read it, but wouldn't "individual" or (in my case) "loyal subject" suffice?

As someone with multiple personality disorder I am truly offended  :zoinks:

We are all individuals. :zoinks:

Every single one of the voices in Parts' head is an individual.  :2thumbsup:

Except the one that also has a multiple personality disorder. :P
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2016, 09:30:44 AM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.

The sub dialect of the village I grew up in has only the equivalent for he and his. Works for both males and females. There are no words for she and her.

Funny, I had noticed it as a kid, but was raised in a little different dialect. Thought it was weird people had no idea when to use her and she. Found out after I left home that it was a particular thing of the dialect in that small area.
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2016, 09:37:41 AM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.

As it should be :)

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2016, 11:40:43 AM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.

As it should be :)

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2016, 12:26:51 PM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.

As it should be :)

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2016, 12:58:35 AM »
Gender neutral pronouns are a necessity that we have too long ignored.  My understanding is that most languages have these.  I can't tell you how fucking sick and tired I am of writing "he or she" in legal documents.

You could simply switch to Finnish. There is no gender differentiation of the third person pronoun in Finnish.

As it should be :)

Yes, it makes sense.

There is one for "it", though, used for animals and inanimate objects. In Finnish slang and some more sloppy dialects, it's also used when referring to people.

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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #28 on: May 26, 2016, 03:51:27 PM »
Just another case of rubbing "the right's nose in diversity... and rendering their arguments out of date".  The people who makes these laws/policies don't actually care about gay or trans people. 
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Re: $250k fine for not using gender neutral pronouns.
« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2016, 04:13:30 PM »
And you do?
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