[Ads-l] Apparently brainless reporting on alternative 3rd person pronouns
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Oct 17 18:28:58 UTC 2018
And "Ye" is the nickname of Kanye West. I refuse to choose between sexism
and gratuitous publicity.
An entirely new pronoun is required.
I suggest "dumbo."
JL
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:18 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> <You>, of course, is notoriously sexist, since it rhymes with <ewe>.
> Replace with <ye>.
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