Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 07:45:41PM +0100, Alexandre Fran?ois Garreau wrote:
     Le jeudi 5 mars 2020, 19:29:27 CET Per Bothner a ??crit :
     > On 3/5/20 9:54 AM, John Darrington wrote:
     > > Singular they has been denounced by many in the English speaking world
     > > for various reasons. Here is just one example:
     > > 
     > > https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/they_is_destroying_th
     > > e_english_language.html
     > Do you really think people who write these rants would not disparage use
     > of "per" even more?
     
     It is unclear, as the author would call ???courageous??? the usage of 
???gender-
     neutral ridiculous-sounding pronouns such as ???jee???, ???ney??? and 
???thon??????.  
     Actually I???ve never heard these last.  The only proposed alternate 
gender-
     neutral pronoun I???ve heard about for english is ???zhe???.  If he 
doesn???t 
     speak about it, maybe it is because he doesn???t find it ridiculous 
enough, 
     yet still courageous?  At least the point of it being ungrammatical would 
     not hold anymore.

There have been dozens of these schemes proposed over the years.  None
of them have ever caught on.    I don't hold any particular opinions
about them.
     
     To me it is even better as it is pretty common among both right and left-
     wing to believe being fighting for freedom.  And if imho freedom is left-
     wing and vice-versa, and free software provides freedom (something we all 
     believe in, in free-software movement), then I can stay perfectly 
     convinced right-wing people helping free software are fighting against 
     their cause, and they can believe the same thing about me and left-wing 
     people, and in the end who???s effectively right eventually wins.  So 
     everything???s fine.

+1