Intersexual/gender-neutral pronouns

[Mark Mandel]

On Dec 3, 2007 11:46 PM, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>
> >http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/faq.html#net says, "The two most popular
> >seem to be 'sie, hir, hir, hirs, hirself', (especially 'hir'), and 'zie,
> zir, zir, zirs, zirself'."
>
> Uh. Well, I guess "popular" is relative. Those are new to me.
>

In context, the FAQ is clearly talking about pronouns, generally neologisms,
that are explicitly gender-neutral singular, not gender-neutral singular use
of existing English pronouns whose primary meaning is not gender-neutral
singular.

m a  m

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org