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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
You seem to have mistaken an expression of the idea that masculine genderless pronouns are built into languages (and are therefore quite difficult to remove) for the spectacle of you or someone else being beaten to death for improper usage.
No one wants to go on saying he but meaning he and she. The challenge is finding a way to do it without having to join the Oulipo Society. |
I disagree that a masculine genderless pronoun is built into English. It has been crowbarred into English into the past couple of centuries, in an attempt to displace the much more sensible singular they/their/them.
There is no need to invent a new genderless singular pronoun for English. We already have one.