From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 07:14:00 MST
2002.03.03 00:49:40, "Colin Hales" <colin@versalog.com.au> wrote:
>I tried
>"Yesterday ve learned X but when I asked ver today ve did not know"
>"Yesterday se learned X but when I asked ser today se did not know"
>at home. My son liked S and my wife likes V. I think the S version falls
off
>my tongue better but the V looks better written, somehow. Ill try the S
>version for a while and see how it feels (for AI). Is there an Extropian
>standard? I have a practical need for one, extropian or otherwise. I wish
it
>were so. Panelbeating the heart of the English language was not in the
game
>plan. I have a lot of words to write and speak - someone tell me which!
Recently on the Sphere list we've been having a discussion about g-neutral
pronouns (standardizing one set vs letting everyone have there own
individuality, what should be standard if anything) and the set that's been
generally accepted is ze/zir/em (or er). I think this is the easiest to
say, zim/vim/sim (or zer/ver/ser) don't flow at all - him/her don't have a
consonant at the beginning and we're used to saying those, so it's much
easier to keep the g-neutral equivalent starting with a vowel too.
cheshire morgan. Advance and never halt, for advancing is perfection.
Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path,
for they draw only corrupt blood.
-Kahlil Gibran
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