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7 Post author: KevinGrant 29 November 2015 02:40AM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 29 November 2015 07:40:35PM 4 points [-]

I personally don't like the neutral/beloved/despised distinction

The feminist linguist who designed Láadan thought that "patriarchal" languages weren't sufficiently emotionally loaded. I'd like to see how she'd write a newspaper article using those pronouns.