New pronouns just dropped - what's your opinion on them

@ElwoodBlues Speaks volumes that he has to go back to high school textbooks from before desegregation to find texts that agree with him.

@exchrist it exists in a sense. There are none that produce both sets of gametes, so there are no true human hermaphrodites. It is a disorder.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow speaks volumes that you can’t do either of the things I asked.

@HijabaDabbaDoo What do you really mean by 'evolve with language' - can you spell it out?

@bijouxbroussard For men there's a relegated to history 'master' pronoun which I hated people using to describe me when I was a kid. FFS I have a real name and it's not 'bloke man'. But 'mate' will do fine as that's aussie vernacular for 'that guy over there'.

@HijabaDabbaDoo Those are not pronouns... they are gendered titles. The English language only has three kinds of pronouns: It-its; She-her-hers; He-him-his.
Each of these three groups then take the plural forms: These-those-they-them-their-theirs

And now we could have the possible modification of the English language with the addition of more pronouns... but before that we need consensus on what these pronouns are, how they are to be used and modified according to their use cases, whether we can set a limit to the number of pronouns, and if so what that limit is... etc.

Language is a matter of convention... a sound or group of sounds come to signify something when: a) most people agree that it signifies that very thing & b) it keeps signifying that very thing for an adequate length of time for it to be officially codified or accepted by a majority.

If some people introduce a pronoun into the English language today - or several pronouns - then those will have to pass through the same due process and stand the same test of time for them to become part of the English lexicon. Modifying any language takes consensus and decades, sometimes centuries.... unless it is a scientific descriptor or a technical term (and even those often follow the same process).

@Mamapolo2016 We all have the jurisdiction to mind our own actions... My action, which is perfectly within my jurisdiction, will be to tell them who I THINK they are. What they consider themselves to be is no concern of mine and also outside my jurisdiction.
On the flip side, it is in my jurisdiction to hear who someone THINKs I am... as it is in everybody's.

@chilloutab2 I don’t feel perfect enough to judge others.

@Mamapolo2016
Correct. No one is! I agree!

Let's not judge. I would not be so presumptuous as to judge others. I will just restrain my judgement and jurisdiction to my own self. To me my way... to all others their own ways.

@basilfawlty89 So we agree about that (although I seem to have missed your clarification.) Why then are you appearing to argue and talking about me 'pulling at straws' etc? (mate 😳)

@DiliMarky Bro 🤣🤣🤣

@SarahAndSamantha I'm puzzled: When would you use their 'preferred' pronoun while speaking to someone? Just saying 'you' would be normal. Do you have an example from ordinary conversataion where you would address someone using another pronoun?

@ffony y'know, for the most part, that's kinda the point. talking directly to someone, we pretty much never refer to them by he, she, they, any of that stuff. It's when talking about them that we do. that can be done in their presence, so it can directly affect them, but for the most part it's when they're not around.

this is why I don't see why people feel the need to not use a person's preferred pronouns, at least in their presence. For the most part, you don't even need to worry about it.

As for an example in ordinary conversation. I'm talking to Becky and Frank. Becky says "blah blah blah, blahbbity blah blah blah." I turn to Frank and say "Did you understand a single thing she just said?"

@AthrillatheHunt

Taliban Tahim Abdul may have stolen their thunder...

@OogieBoogie so my Kleenex box is empty...i will miss her . she really helped me out when i had that summer cold.

I would say that maxi pads are "she".....but a tampon? wouldn't that make it a "he"...considering what it does and all

@LILY61 It is he in my language. 😆 And a tissue is ineed she.

@CrazyMusicLover oh youre kidding?
Really!😂

A tampon is masculine ?...😂🤣
That's a crack up.

@LILY61 ... seemed ypu nailed it 😂

@DiliMarky As long as they keep giving us moments like this, it's all good.


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@BohemianBabe I like it

I'm done, I'm not dealing with your harassment any longer @DiliMarky

@HumanEarth Says the one whos put an offensive comment then deleted it. Cyber bully

@Askeladd well put

@LordShadowfire perhaps you can enlighten me on the mental stability of someone that identifies as a cat then?

@JestAJester I would love to enlighten you on a number of issues, but I have neither the time nor the crayons.

I disagree though that non-binaries and the like should expect other people to address them in 'third person' like they are not actually there in front of the person speaking to them, or there are 'more than two souls/spirits' embodied in the one body. I do know about the 'two-spirit' concept but non-binary is not 'two spirit' it's twisting the facts to suit the narrative of a person's own self-importance to reject reality and substitute their own.

@PatKirby seen that before and yeah very accurate

@PatKirby Very true

@DiliMarky

Gender dysphoria.

@ffony 💯

@Adogslife Noted.

@TheRascallyOne all hail to the king!

@CrazyMusicLover It's rather silly isn't it

@DiliMarky I find it a bit like a stomping me me me 4-5 year old testing what he or she can get away with. If they find some unified generally accepted system, okay, but I refuse to learn and remember a new language every time I meet a new person. I can barely remember names and faces of new people already. 😂

For example, you come here, what language do you speak? English. It's not my first language but I adapt, right? Can you imagine I would come here and started speaking in my first language and expected everyone to keep translating everything I say to English?

@CrazyMusicLover Very true. Your well spoken anyway. Your English is very, very good!

@Moneyonmymind Say it loud brother!

@basilfawlty89 Me and 99% of other people on the planet

@DiliMarky citation needed.

@basilfawlty89 I don't think so

@Ynotisay Fair points. It's not as common as certain propaganda wants people to believe it is. I just think that many people have wtf moments when they receive requests to state their pronouns in emails and official documents. It's always weird for the first time when there weren't these requests before.

@CrazyMusicLover I agree with being asked to define pronouns. I won't do it. Because I don't think it's sincere. When the pendulum started to swing, as it always does, it usually swings too far in some areas. And then there's pushback and it corrects itself. Hopefully with a little bit of progress but usually with a fair level of animosity and some victims along the way.

@LILY61 You never called someone "it"? 👀 That's the third gender - neutral/undefined.

@CrazyMusicLover someone like Pat or her friend Chris...from SNL...that i would call "IT"...because i wouldn't know