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I am impressed that I got so many responses in such short time. If one of the moderators thinks this post is more appropriate for main they can move it there.
Edit: So far we have 50 respondents. That is 5% of your mark. Edit2: Change in personal pronoun.
Mrerererer.
EDIT: I get variable amounts of negative karma for complaining about pronouns, but this one got pretty downvoted pretty fast. Is it something about "mrerererer" as an expression of displeasure in particular? Do I need to expressly state in so many words that I'm complaining about pronouns, even though Metus figured it out right away?
Note a downvoter, but on a note of inferential distance -- prior to the edit, I would have had no idea that "Mrerererer" was a vocalization of displeasure.
It sounds like a suggestion for a new pronoun, even better than all existing pronouns. :D
We can rebuild mrererererer. We have the technology.... Better, stronger, faster.
( In case that didn't make sense )
Upvoted. Please call me out if you ever see me doing it. I try to use Spivak pronouns in any instance where it is not really important whether or not the reader will judge me for using them (ie. not on a term paper) but I rarely think of it.
But I think it would have helped if you were more specific. I wouldn't have understood that you were complaining about pronouns. I may not have understood that "Mrerererer" was a complaint, and not an attempt to mimic the noise my dog makes when he's sucking on his chew toy. ;-)
I thought of it as a sex-generic "he" but if you think it is more appropriate I can change it to "he or she" (or "it".) Do you want me to?
"They" can be used as a neutral third-person pronoun.
Thank you, good suggestion.
Which seems like the most generic and easy-to-implement solution.
Yes please. Although I don't think we have any moderators who prefer "it", we might one day acquire some (e.g. Clippy could be given mod powers, in theory).