Zack_M_Davis comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong
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I wrote a short story with something of a transhumanism theme. People can read it here. Actionable feedback welcome; it's still subject to revision.
Note: The protagonist's name is "Key". Key, and one other character, receive Spivak pronouns, which can make either Key's name or eir pronouns look like some kind of typo or formatting error if you don't know it's coming. If this annoys enough people, I may change Key's name or switch to a different genderless pronoun system. I'm curious if anyone finds that they think of Key and the other Spivak character as having a particular gender in the story; I tried to write them neither, but may have failed (I made errors in the pronouns in the first draft, and they all went in one direction).
I love the new gloss on "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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.
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.