[ SECRET POST #2813 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2813 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Vocaloid]


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03.
[Homestuck]


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04.
[Luke Evans, Dracula Untold]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]


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06.
[John Green]


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07.
[Ace Attorney: The Adventures of Ryunosuke Naruhodou]


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08.
[Legend of Korra]


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09.
[Paul Hollywood of The Great British Bake-Off]















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Comments

[threeeyedsloth]

Well, "it" has a negative connotation in English. That something is a thing rather than a person. Groot has a male voice actor, so I guess if you have to pick...

In this sense, I kind of get the 'zir/zis/zey' (is that right?) thing. Be generic without being offensive. It's just ridiculous sounding.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there's really no gender-neutral way of referring to someone in English that isn't making a big deal of the matter. "It" has too much of a derogatory implication to work, and regular use of singular "they" or any of the constructed neutral pronoun sets demands a lot of consistent attention on the part of your average speaker, which means it's not going to be casual or natural for either the speaker or the listeners without a lot of practice.

For an alien who presumably doesn't have the same feelings about gender that we do anyway, I feel like just picking "he" or "she" for the sake of convenience is the way to go if you're not looking to make the audience think about the gender issue every time someone refers to the character.

[(Anonymous)]

Now, this just makes me wonder about pronoun usage in English, and what languages do have gender-neutral ones (Japanese comes to mind). This has virtually nothing to do with the English grammar project I'm supposed to be writing (pronoun usage, yes, but it's not the focus)... Thanks so much for the diversion! (not sarcasm).

(I haven't even see Guardians of the Galaxy yet...)