Julia Thompson wrote: > >> Is this your invention, or some kind of standard >> crossdresser pronoun? In the Jijo books, He uses >> "er" for a neutral gender, but I guess using neutral >> in this case would be politically incorrect. > > It's one of the conventions I've seen online. I don't know if it's > the one that xe uses, but it's the one I've got the best handle on. > Natural languages are so weird. Why there's not an _uninformative_ pronoun? Portuguese (and other latin-based languages) are even worse. You can't say a profession or an adjective without giving gender information. There's no ungendered way to say "my friend" or even say that someone is "old", "married" or "busy" (but some adjective are genderless - go figure).
Alberto Monteiro PS: even first names, and most short-versions of them, are gendered. There's no way to call some "Sam" or "Alex" or "Charlie". _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
