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To: ARGLOCKGUY

With some names, however, there is a distinct advantage to being able to designate the proper pronoun that goes with the name.

When I was born, one of my mother’s friends called to ask what she had named me. When my mother told her, she exclaimed, “Oh, you had a little boy!” My middle name is androgynous, as well.


12 posted on 09/30/2016 2:46:45 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Excellent point. This would also be helpful for many foreign students.


13 posted on 09/30/2016 2:48:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The coming of a Cthulhu presidency will be heralded by a worldwide wave of madness.)
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To: exDemMom

Xe/xir/xyr/zir/hir/they/vey/hu/thon are specifically intended to avoid that kind of clarity.

See also:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_protologisms/third_person_singular_gender_neutral_pronouns
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_third-person_singular_pronouns


27 posted on 09/30/2016 4:22:21 AM PDT by fluorescence
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