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Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns


From: Derek Fawcus
Subject: Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:33:38 +0100

On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:00:21PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM Léa Gris <lea.gris@noiraude.net> wrote:
> 
> For the second person, there's of course "thou", but for some reason,
> I've never heard anyone suggest using that in practice.

Hast thou never been to Yorkshire or Lancashire?  :-)

One can still occasionally experience thee/thy/thou/thine in all their glory.

Some of us could cope with 'thou art' rather than 'you are', but it does
tend to feel a bit archaic.

DF



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