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                                      Em

I'm reading The Epicene Prounound [1] on Kuro5hin [2] and about the lack of a
gender neutral prounoun in relationship with people—it not having the right
connotations for people. The example being used in the discussion, “When the
president calls, tell [insert pronoun for president] to call me back,”
replacing [insert pronoun for president] with it changes its meaning (what?
The president is a bug-eyed alien?).

In the discourse, solution [3] was “When the president calls, tell'em to call
me back.” Em. A bit of linguistic play going on there. The general (possibly
incorrect solution) of using they as a singular gender-neutral pronoun is
still in effect, but maybe there's something there. “Let em who is without
sin, cast the first stone.” Not too bad, but it only covers him/her and not
he/she. Possibly ey?

Then again, I should probably read the Gender-Neutral Pronoun FAQ [4].

[1] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/26/183536/296
[2] http://www.kuro5hin.org/
[3] http://http/
[4] http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/

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