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She. The Judge is a she. Judge Lucy Koh. | 146 comments | Create New Account
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Gender neutral pronouns
Authored by: FreeChief on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 12:50 PM EDT
I use the following set,

singular plural
ey        they
em        them
eir       their
emself    themselves

For example:

This belongs to professor Strong, so if ey comes in, give it to em, or put it in eir mailbox and let em get it emself.

It's easy to remember and not hard to say. It's also unobtrusive. If you pronounce "ey" to rhyme with "he" and "she" instead of "they" it will pass unnoticed in speach. If you want to emphasize gender neutrality, just pronounce it like "they".

 — Programmer in Chief

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She. The Judge is a she. Judge Lucy Koh.
Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 05:54 PM EDT
Actually no.

When you look at where the words came from, we have

(hu)man - gender neutral
wer-man - male
wif-man - female

But we've dropped the wer to make man the male version, and changed wifman to
woman.

"man" is a gender neutral word. That said, I also tend to use either
sh-he or they when I don't know the gender - I just feel it's more respectful to
women. That's the important thing - to show respect.

Cheers,
Wol

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