robertskmiles comments on Offense versus harm minimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 17 April 2011 10:50:19AM *  12 points [-]

I always use "one" as an indefinite pronoun, similar to how I would do it in German.

From what I've heard, these days there are attempts to condemn man in German as sexist.

In English, I also like using "one" but it's often too clumsy. As for those "ey" and "eir" pronouns, I find them not just extremely ugly, but also a very annoying obstruction while reading.

Comment author: robertskmiles 17 April 2011 03:10:10PM *  6 points [-]

As for those "ey" and "eir" pronouns,

Is that what that was? I had assumed that the text had been copied from some typesetting system that made a 'th' ligature glyph which didn't survive the copying process.

I actually stopped noticing it pretty quickly. That's what comes from reading a lot of poorly OCRed ebooks.