Monday, January 28, 2008

Yo Yo Yo

If you're at all into the changing linguistic patterns of America, this may be of interest. English has both masculine (he) and feminine (she) singular pronouns.. but no gender-neutral one. Until Now... and Yo's the word.
I always found it odd that our singular pronouns (he, she) were gender-specific but our plural pronoun (they) is gender non-specific. Perhaps someday there'll be a new group of kids using gender-specific plural pronouns (hims, hers ??).

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