JuanSeiszFitzHall
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This may be a touchy subject for some people, but I hope to learn something from the conversation. Many users of the English language try to avert gender specificity in individual personal pronouns by replacing them with plural personal pronouns (they/them/etc.). However well-intended this approach may be, I often find its usage confusing. The meaning of what is written this way is not always clear to me. Because a truly useful language is not forever static, I think the goal of gender-unspecified expression could be achieved by the coinage of new, ungendered, singular personal pronouns. The issue then becomes whether people can agree on what those new pronouns are. (I don’t consider ‘it’ an acceptable substitute, not only because it can be seen as insulting, but also because it doesn’t solve the confusion problem in the composition of English. ‘It’ can be called upon to represent a variety of nouns. ‘It’ isn’t a personal pronoun.)
Here in this Forum, many if not most of us are writers. What are your thoughts on how to navigate the they/them trend in your writing, and whether there should be new pronouns?
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Here in this Forum, many if not most of us are writers. What are your thoughts on how to navigate the they/them trend in your writing, and whether there should be new pronouns?
https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5116173&page=submissions