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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Dear native English speakers, would you mind inventing a new word either for gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, or one for what "they" mean to foreign English speakers since you are so insisted in differing its meaning from the text books you shipped us decades ago?

English is so inconsistent at this point. Only the third-person pronouns have gender in singular form, the plural form has no gender and now you are telling us the gender-less form can be singular now? How confusing!

English is widespread partly because it has simple alphabet and relatively easy grammar. I don't mind someone being in LGBT+ group at all, but could you please don't mess with the language?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Don't blame native speakers that your textbook is outdated

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Others have addressed some of your other points, but

would you mind inventing a new word either for gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, or one for what "they" mean to foreign English speakers

We actually have that. Xe / Xem / Xyrs. It isn't very widely used though, and is generally considered a neo pronoun.

Honestly I don't really expect it to get mainstream use anytime soon, in part because people are already accused to the singular They / Them / Theirs (except for when a nonbinary person asks to be refered to as such).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

These people don’t care if it’s grammatically correct. They just don’t like trans people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What is "JK" referencing to?

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