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On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:24:52 -0800, Magliocco, Sabina
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> One question that perhaps someone can help me with. Last weekend at
> Pantheacon, I spoke with a person who identified as "meta-gender" and
> used the pronoun "e" to refer to eself. What exactly is "meta-gender?"
> I haven't run across this one yet, and I don't see it on Pitch's list
> from the new Facebook designations.
Pronoun sets are long enduring in languages, and don't seem to
change easily. Try as I might, I've found that I cannot much extend
the pronoun set that I learned at an early age. Or get other speakers
to adapt new pronouns. (For some years, in speech and my writing,
I used the pronoun "ix" to refer to the gender of demons. But it
never went anywhere beyond my science fictiony idiolect.)
"E" is proposed as a gender-neutral pronoun. But looking at the
proliferation of gender categories, we may require a large pronoun
set to be elaborated--e, dee, gee, lee, wee, zee, or some such...)
Musing Let Me Count the Genders! Rose,
Pitch
a native speaker of the language of today's Paganism???
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