AS THE AUTHOR of textbooks, I have posted bail quite a few times for the language police who inflict their sandbox rules upon our culture and mediocrity upon our literature. In my neophyte days, I employed the masculine pronoun in my texts, using only "he" and him," in the anthropomorphic sense. People began jumping from windows, so I embraced pluralism. Every example had its participants and pronouns doubled. I used "theys,""thems," and even "yuns," whenever western Pennsylvania coal-mining roots overpowered the grammar hammer.
When my dedication to pluralism resulted in two CEOs running one company, I returned to singularism and mixed my "he's and "she's" together.
Users began counting the number of "he's" and "she's," checking for equal pronoun distribution. An editor vetoed my suggested dedication for the first gender equity edition: "AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TEXT. ALL PRONOUNS WELCOME." . . .
Speaking of ridiculous....ping.
He is hu, she is hu, even an it is a hu?
What will all the hu’s down in hu-ville do?
That community is most notable for the innovative use of things other than pronouns. In any case human beings do not have "genders." Words have genders. Human beings have sexes. Vive la Différence.
Such acrobatic stupidity (one is reminded of a diver doing a one and a half gainer into a dry pool) as DeLuna's neologism will not "catch on" unless it is mandated, and the real language Nazis know that perfectly well. It will be coming soon to academia, bet on it. There tortured syntax is perfectly justified as long as it is the interest of (shudder) "gender and social justice."
But the control of language is not the control of thought despite some decades of earnest academic asseveration to the contrary. It isn't even really the control of language. That has, to my knowledge, happened only in one extraordinary case, and Latin has been dead for a very long time now.
Those folks have a mental disorder. We are being preached to about giving the mentally ill preference when we use the English language. That makes US insane as well.
PC should take it’s rightful place, well hidden behind that huge rock, where all lies hide, never to be bowed to or spoken again.
Hu’s on first?
You’ll let me know when this is settled.
Everyone:
In case I spontaneously break into Spanish this evening, may I use the familiar ‘tu’ form with you?
Silly
Whoa!
I zinger in the argument. Obviously, if I still prefer "he" I am by definition not modern.
Pity. I may need to start looking into Ambien.
Alas, modern man. what is he to do?
Now, where are those socks I need to sort?
[cue Roger Daltrey and the fellas:]
“Hu are you? Hu, hu? Hu, hu?”
These people should be strongly encouraged to commit suicide
Would we say, “Give it to hu” or “Give it to hum”? “You were with hu” or “You were with hum”?This could get very confusing.
Someone should tell DeAnn DeLuna that she is missing her true calling in life. Why is she wasting time by trifling with a few pesky English pronouns? Someone should introduce DeLuna to the treasure trove hidden in plain sight within the French language - there's a dictionary full of gendered nouns just begging for the application of her impressive neutering skills.
Or, we could just sit around sipping espresso and speaking Esperanto.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Ne,” “hizer,” “thon,” “shem” and “herm” are just a few that came along and faded quickly.
Must’ve been rejects from Disney’s Dwarf closet.
Hu(h)?
What's wrong with "it"?
Gender | non- gender- specific pronoun | non- gender- specific personal pronoun | male | female | hemoth (hermoph- rodite) |
neut (asexual - person neuter) e.g. neuter bioids, many AIs & aioids |
object (impersonal neuter) | plural (generic) |
singular (Subject) | e / ey | per | he | she | se | je | it | they |
singular (Object) | em | per | him | her | hir | jer | it | them |
possessive adjective | eir | pers | his | hers | hir | jers | its | their |
possessive pronoun | eirs | pers | his | hers | hirs | jers | its | theirs |
Reflexive | emself or eirself | perself | himself | herself | hirself | jerself | itself | themself or theirself |
Now ... why did they do it? Any person that is eventually uploaded or sentient robot/AI will not have a gender.
Actually, we have. He mentioned it in the previous sentence. Language will be what most people use. Over time, the grammar police and academics will come around.