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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by Larrikin on Thursday January 19, 2023 @11:28PM (#34449265)
I personally think that the ultimate end game for pronouns in English will be creations of new ones with no connotations (so easy to apply like names) that get incorporated into the language or more likely an eventual move to a single pronoun that applies to everyone. Chinese, for example, only differentiates in written form so would be an easy adjustment. They is every high schoolers preferred choice in essays before English teachers complain.

I'm not sure how the under 20 is adjusting but in my groups of mid 20 to late 30 nobody is trying to disrespect anyone by not using preferred pronouns, but it just slips out from decades of usage, and people just end up replacing pronouns with the person's actual name after multiple times apologizing. The having to remember multiple names when meeting someone just doesn't seem tenable long term.

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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by Faark on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:50AM (#34453083)
> more likely an eventual move to a single pronoun that applies to everyone

Oh god i hope. As a german, we have pronouns for all nouns. So far no societal backlash against those, but they just seem totally useless to me (beside maybe a teeny tiny bit of "forward error correction"). You just have to learn them. Surest way to spot an immigrant. Then there is job titles. In the US, "nurse" seems to be used for both genders, but the words origin is female. Yeah, we have that as well for many jobs. Others usually have suffixes. Ofc we want to be welcoming to all. You can imagine the job listings...

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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by rsynnott on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:46AM (#34455764)
That's more or less what singular they is, surely?
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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps by throwaway98797 on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:34PM (#34462363)
zhe

is a great non-gender pro-noun

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