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RE[3]: What an utter non-issue
by sbergman27 on Thu 9th Jul 2009 16:00 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: What an utter non-issue"
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You could always add (or she) everytime you say he.

Yeah. But what we really need is a new gender neutral pronoun which is not genderless. If it weren't for that last requirement, we could just use "it". ;)

The tough part is that to have a chance of being used, the new term has to come into common use *first* and then be picked up by dictionaries and other references. It's not the sort of thing that can be pushed down from the top.

A natural candidate would be some portmantaeu of "he" and "she". But nothing obvious enough to be catchy comes to mind. It's a problem remeniscient of the conundrum we have with the word "Free" in describing OSS software. In every direction in which one turns, there is something blocking the way to any simple and obvious solution.

Edited 2009-07-09 16:02 UTC

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