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David Gileadi via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 11 07:56:52 PDT 2015


On 6/10/15 6:43 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 01:30:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> 'he' has been a gender neutral pronoun for centuries, and as far as
>> I'm aware this has its roots in latin using 'man'(vir?) as a gender
>> neutral pronoun.
>
> I am just saying that personally it sounds odd to me to use it that way
> and I don't hear people use it that way either. In gender neutral
> contexts where you don't know the gender I almost always say/hear
> they/their. Maybe he losing its gender neutrality is a recent thing, I
> don't know. Maybe its just a thing with mid-westerners?

It does appear to be a recent thing, if you trust Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns#Generic_he

Also the earlier section on "Historical and dialectal gender-neutral 
pronouns" is interesting: maybe we can start using "a" or "yo" as pronouns.


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