Re: Gender Neutral Pronouns

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 09:20:44 MST


On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, the animated silicon love doll wrote:

> Those aren't gender neutral. We're in the business of creating ourselves
> and becoming whatever we want to be, here, and some of us don't want to
> be a he or a she.

1) you're a human being still

2) you're talking to still other human beings, most of whom are unfamiliar
   with new terminology, especially pointless new terminology

3) posthuman beings either never spoke human languages, or rapidly stop
   using languages and concepts as they radiate away from the founder
   species

This considered, especially 2), seem to suggest to stick to vanilla human
language. (For time being; for most of us, with the possible exception
of gargoyles).



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