tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6315341043119330422011-04-21T21:40:52.962-07:00Hunternoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-631534104311933042.post-85192075768420537912008-11-09T21:53:00.000-08:002008-11-09T22:12:34.917-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;">Thank you muchly Dragonwriter! The story: I'm on Failblog.org looking at "<a href="http://failblog.org/2008/11/09/sensitivity-fail/#comments">Chick Accuses Some of Her Male Colleagues of Sexism</a>". I see a comment by Dragonwriter [scroll down a bit]:</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">English is in serious need of a gender-neutral singular pronoun."</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So I figure: "That's not a bad idea..." So I feel that the new gender-neutral (third-person, I might add) singular pronoun should be.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; ">PAKS!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Please, I think it's a good idea that this word is used. We need as much fame as possible! Please!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial;">We won't be big enough 'till it's in a dictionary!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/631534104311933042-8519207576842053791?l=paksrevolution.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Hunternoreply@blogger.com1