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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-11-11 06:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #3234 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

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

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








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Re: Controversial Opinions

(Anonymous) 2015-11-12 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I kinda wish the English language had some gender-neutral, singular pronoun that would be commonly used, and could be used when unclear about someone's gender, or talking about unknown/unspecific/generalised people, and nb people could use that, and it'd be like this standard everyday thing. "They" is kinda used for that now, but it causes confusion because it sounds plural (tbh "you" has the same problem, but at least everyone KNOWS it's used singularly too. Also people use "you" for the people they're talking to, who already know whether they're one person or multiple people, whereas "they" and such are often used about people who aren't present).

I mean, half the timeusing "they" about one specific person is followed by having to explain that I'm not talking about multiple people.

My native language doesn't even have gendered pronouns, we only have the gender-neutral one. Seems to have saved us from a lot of hassle. (We also have different words for plural and singular "you".)

Pronouns are supposed to be these "invisible" words. They're used so that you don't have to repeat a person's name or some noun over and over again. This is why the flashier type of neo-pronouns don't really serve their function very well (plus, it's just plain unreasonable to expect everyone to learn infinite customised neo-pronouns. That's what names and nicknames are for.) So the hypotethical singular neutral pronoun should probably be something simple that fits with "she" and "he". "Ze" could probably work, although I'm a bit wary of the Z in there. It... sounds better than it looks written.

Something like "ae" or just plain "E" might not be a bad idea.