On 3/22/20 12:57 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:16:29 -0600, kinsell wrote:

The currently popular pronoun when gender is unknown seems to be
'they'.

Dunno if I like it all that much but at least its inoffensive and seems
to be the politically correct flavour of the month round here. Its used
by both 'New Scientist' and 'The Register'. The latter snarks more than
the former.


Being inoffensive to Unique is of no particular concern, I just get my
news from the Babylon Bee, which puts The Register to shame in the
snarkiness department. Nice thing about killfiles is they work equally
well on all 58 genders. They don't discriminate.


:-)

The 'inoffensive' tag was not intended to refer to any entity, regardless
of their corporeal or spiritual existence or lack thereof and which plane
of conciousness they inhabit. Rather, it was meant to reassure those in
need of reassurance that using that plural nongendered pronoun in this
fashion is SFW and, indeed encouraged by those who find specifying an
unknown entity's gender to be problematic.


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