Post by jen on Oct 7, 2022 3:34:00 GMT -5
I don't understand the current complications of using the right pronouns other than its correct grammatical use. I can't weigh in to it since my mother tongue doesn't share the complexity it posits with some individuals being called their preferred pronouns in English language. My brain somehow doesn't regard any strong link to it although I speak English. Hence, my brain does not recognise a weighted problems to call anyone their own pronouns as they wish. I can call you whatever you want if that's what you wish. Not calling you for what you wish and prefer for is being impolite unless you want me to call you a controversial name (Hitler, for instance) that I should be wary of.
I'll probably have a hard time remembering to use the "they" and might end up using the person's name repeatedly, instead. Non-native English speakers (like me) may have studied English for years and adhere to communicate in English using correct grammar (we strive to be grammatically correct until we bleed our nose
) and using "they" on a singular person wouldn't make sense to us. If educators and lawmakers strive to make this a standard teaching in present generation of students learning English (native and non-native), then, I can see that it would be the norm in the future of English language. Having said this, I think it's a good idea to make another thread about use of pronouns, Pris. Again, for intellectual discussions. I can share what I have read and discovered personally if this is a kind of discussion members would like to discussed with. It doesn't have to be specific to people who wish to be called "they" or "he" to a "she" or "she" to a "he." There are some political hubhub about the use of pronouns even before (woke). It's quite interesting and informative.
One thing I realised, on thinking, is that in normal speech pronouns are not used to the extent that the current debate, in general and not just here, generates. Such terms are used more for describing or referring to someone and so are not direct. In that way I would think that 'he' or 'she' are perhaps far less of an issue, in actual reality, than terms such as 'sir' or 'madam' or lesser confusions like 'love', 'mate', 'sweetie', 'bud', 'babe', 'darling' or any of the other terms which are used when directly greeting and talking to someone.
In the end it gets down to respect and whether it is intended predjudice though rather than ways of speaking and unintended mistakes.
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Getting back to topic though, and what is a woman. Another point which could be made, outside of the physical is that a woman could be described as a way of thinking. Generally higher empathy. More thinking? As an onlooker the physical roles of men and women (outside of the obvious limitations) are getting pretty much inter-changeable. It is perhaps more the mental approach to things which are different.
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