Sparks fly as neutral pronoun included in French dictionary

The Associated Press ^ | November 18, 2021 | By THOMAS ADAMSON

[Magnum44]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I can’t keep up. They should start a weekly update on verboten words.

[PGR88]

The Jacobins only attempted to change the Calendar.

Today’s radicals want to change language itself.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

“It is very important that dictionaries include the ‘iel’ pronoun in their referencing as it reflects how the use of the term is now well accepted,” said Dorah Simon Claude, a 32-year-old doctoral student who identifies as “iel.”I

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Well, of course “iel” would think that. Change everything to accommodate “iel”. I have always wondered if this stuff was going on in other languages.

[cgbg]

From the article at the link:

“In Greece, where all nouns have not two, but three possible genders, there is no official nonbinary pronoun, but groups who support them suggest using “it.””

_Somebody_ gets _it_.

I have been calling those “things” It for a while now!

[A Navy Vet]

Idiocy.

[HIDEK6]

Why would they do that. They have a perfectly acceptable alternate.

”On” as in, “On dit” translates as “One says.”

[vaskypilot]

This should be fun to watch! I was wondering what would occur with the romance languages where each noun is male or female!

[cgbg]

If you can’t language something it is hard to think it.

That is why some folks here have a lot of trouble dealing with concepts that are hard to explain with specific words designed for that purpose.

[alexander_busek]

If "iel" is the third-person singular neutral term - then what is the third-person plural neutral term. I.e., what pronoun would be used to refer to a group of "neutrals?"

And what about the possessives?

Son = his

Sa = hers

and "its"???

Regards,

[Chode]

instead of adding a new one, why not dump the other two?

[Chode]

i hope it causes no end of troubles in general, let alone legal documents...

will misgendering a word become a hate crime?

[Magnum44]

Isnt French already its own gender?

/Ducking ;)

[drSteve78]

Would have been most appropriate to use “ill”.

[Clutch Martin]

There is only one personal pronoun that works and it’s all inclusive because everybody no matter what, has one.

Therefore by their definition it is gender-neutral. The word is... (drumroll please):

a**hole

[drSteve78]

Mais oui!

Or is it, may we?

[Chode]

thank you...

[Red Badger]

Equivalent to our He/she or “shemale”?.................

[Red Badger]

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984