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Re:Too Many 'a's (A poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss) by philh on Monday December 01, 2014 @08:31AM (#8680808)
> On a related note, when are we getting genderless pronouns for English?

When enough people start using them despite occasionally annoying other people. :)

(I'm a fan of ve/ver/vis for someone of unknown/nonbinary gender, but in a case like this I would have just picked he or she and to hell with anyone who complains.)

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Re:Too Many 'a's (A poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss) by juliangregorian on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:37AM (#8681148)
In concept it's great, the problem is that when one says e.g. "ve had 23 variables" I for one tend to read it as a bad German/Russian impression.
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Re:Too Many 'a's (A poem, with apologies to Dr. Seuss) by octo_t on Monday December 01, 2014 @09:30AM (#8681092)
they. Its grammatically and syntactically valid.

"Where's Mark.... Oh there they are"

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