I'm reading The Epicene
Prounound on Kuro5hin and about the lack of a gender
neutral prounoun in relationship with people—it not having the
right connotations for people. The example being used in the discussion,
“When the president calls, tell [insert pronoun for president] to call me
back,” replacing [insert pronoun for president] with it
changes its meaning (what? The president is a bug-eyed alien?).
In the discourse, solution
was “When the president calls, tell'em to call me back.” Em. A bit of
linguistic play going on there. The general (possibly incorrect solution)
of using they as a singular gender-neutral pronoun is still in
effect, but maybe there's something there. “Let em who is without sin,
cast the first stone.” Not too bad, but it only covers him/her
and not he/she. Possibly ey?
Then again, I should probably read the Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ.
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