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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-12-24 09:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2183 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2183 ⌋

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[personal profile] dratinis 2012-12-25 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I pilfered this from the Wikipedia link another user posted below, and I feel like it's relevant to your question:

"Like most efforts at language reform, these well-intended suggestions have been largely ignored by the general English-speaking public, and the project to supplement the English pronoun system has proved to be an ongoing exercise in futility. Pronouns are one of the most basic components of a language, and most speakers appear to have little interest in adopting invented ones. This may be because in most situations people can get by using the plural pronoun they or using other constructions that combine existing pronouns, such as he/she or 'he or she'."

Like you, my mother tongue is also heavily gendered, and I have a feeling that inventing neutral pronouns is something that wouldn't really... do much. As in, I feel like it's something that would be disregarded because that's not really the way the language works. That's not to say that evolution CAN'T happen, but if everything about linguistics I've learned is correct, language evolution is something that happens kind of slowly.