Zack_M_Davis comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zack_M_Davis 02 December 2009 07:41:46PM 3 points [-]

I love the new gloss on "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

or switch to a different genderless pronoun system.

Don't. Spivak is easy to remember because it's just they/them/their with the ths lopped off. Nonstandard pronouns are difficult enough already without trying to get people to remember sie and hir.

Comment author: anonym 02 December 2009 10:12:11PM 0 points [-]

Totally agreed. Spivak pronouns are the only ones I've seen that took almost no effort to get used to, for exactly the reason you mention.