Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre...
by kikokikokiko on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:55AM
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No, it won't get any easier. When you use "they", you are in fact losing information. If I say "he" or "she", the amount of information I'm portraying is, and always will be, greater than a "neutral" pronoun can convey.
Re:Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on thre...
by lovemenot on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:24AM
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Information is lost. I concur. But it will get easier (than now).
If thou dost not agree, thy children may.
Perhaps my rudeness at using the familial second person with a stranger was lost. I hope so. I didn't mean to be rude. Rather to demonstrate that the English language is better for having not preserved that unnecessary distinction.
Heck, Japanese very rarely need a pronoun at all, yet they can somehow infer meaning just fine.