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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by tremon on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:59PM (#21325985)
Okay. We only need one set of gendered pronouns. Using words from one set for some people, while using words from a different set for other people, is subject to arbitrary interpretation and therefore vulnerable to othering.
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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by Will_Parker on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:08PM (#21327413)
> We only need one set of gendered pronouns

Which set do you think would suffice?

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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by rigorous on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:08PM (#21330397)
In my native language, that is, Kazakh, third-person pronouns are gender-less.

"It said it would come tomorrow" means "He/She/It said he/she/it would come tomorrow" and it somehow works :) You're to infer the gender from context.

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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:15AM (#21333754)
English example is the singular they. "It" has some additional implication on age.
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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by f1refly on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:26AM (#21333836)
Except the "singular they" doesn't exist and in basically a forced change of spoken language by a minority who thinks forcing people is a great way to accomplish things
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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @08:49AM (#21334028)
There's no other way to enact change than force or consensus, or mix of these. Consensus is not going to happen. Languages change very slowly.

Royal We was forced, but in widespread use. This pronoun is an offshoot thereof. And other languages have even better pronouns than English. Check Chinese and Japanese.

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Re:Think young people are hostile to capitalism now? Wait fo... by manicdee on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:06PM (#21329771)
Spivak
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