Re: technical terms overhaul

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

On 6/22/20 5:59 AM, Will Mengarini wrote:
> * Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> [20-06/20=Sa 11:58 -0400]:
> > Solve the problem of establishing a good set of gender-neutral
> > pronouns, for English, (and maybe declarations in other
> > languages) - then let's come back and debate colors.
> Here you go:
>    co    cos     cos     coself    co's
>    she   her     hers    herself   she's
>    he    his     his     himself   he's
>    it    its     its     itself    it's
> See <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/co#English>.
>
> The "co/cos/coself/co's" pronouns were first introduced in 1970 in
> the U.S commune named "Twin Oaks", which was founded in 1967.  It was
> modeled on the community described in B.F Skinner's /Walden Two/;
> see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Oaks_Community,_Virginia>.
>
> They're in both Wiktionary and Wikipedia:
>    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_third-person_singular_pronouns
>    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns

It's only a good solution if people actually adopt and use them. 
They/them/their has caught on, but it's kind of hard to differentiate 
singular/plural when you use them to be gender neutral.

Miles


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