The Only Plfrmat

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Aug 21 '10
“…there have been ‘more than 100 attempts to coin a gender-neutral pronoun over the course of more than 150 years’, including heesh, hse, kin, ve, ta, tey, fm, z, ze, shem, se, j/e, jee, ey, ho, po, ae, et, heshe, hann…”
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Our language blog on the times when “he and she” just won’t do (via theeconomist)

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    Well I don’t mind using either “he” or “she,” but I don’t like using terms like mankind, or using the term man in any...
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