From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 21:40:51 MST
2002.03.03 19:12:22, Louis Newstrom <louisnews@comcast.net> wrote:
>At least those words are in the dictionary. People who are unfamiliar
with
>them CAN find out what they mean. If you make up a word people don't have
http://www.m-w.com has nothing for extropy or posthuman, singularity only
gives the mathematical and physics definitions. Googling for "ze zir zim"
brings up the gender-neutral pronoun faq. "ze" and "zir" alone bring up
many things in different languages, I would imagine "zim" would get you
Invader Zim pages.
>a
>chance to understand you. Even with these posts that list all forms of
>these new pronouns, I can't always sort out what these four pronouns mean.
>(I only have a chance with the ones that sound like "her" or "him", and
that
>defeats the whole purpose.)
A little thought and anyone can understand them. I've seen at least two new
(to me) sets of g-neutral pronouns since joining this list, and figured
them all out fairly quickly.
All you need to do is think, and if you don't think, google!
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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