Re: Odd orthography)

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:57:29 -0500 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>I read some time back that some sort of group was trying to do
>something
>closely related to this by making gender neutral pronouns for English
>(despite
>the fact that the plural form "they" etc. has been being used for
>several
>hundred years at least).  Their forms "ey / eir / em" (transparent
>derivatives
>of what is already used: "they") I highly doubt will ever catch on.
>If they do,
>something really weird will have to shake the English linguistic world
>to do it
>(and perhaps, by extension, the rest of the world too).
>=======================================================
>Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
>ICQ#: 4315704   AIM: Deuterotom
>Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/>
>"Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
Talking about the gender-neutral "they", sometimes i find myself
accidentally using it as a *singular* neutral pronoun, complete with
singular-thirdperson verb conjugation, and sometimes pausing in the
middle of a sentence with a singular subject in order to "pluralize" it
by continuing using "they".

-Stephen (Steg)

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