[Dragaera] Gift Shop

Shawn Burns shawnb at stanford.edu
Tue Jan 8 16:41:44 PST 2008


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info 
> [mailto:dragaera-bounces at lists.dragaera.info] On Behalf Of 
> Elizabeth Dalton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:29 PM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] Gift Shop
> 

[snip]
> Sorry about the "themselves" and "they," but I excuse them on 
> the grounds that Dragaeran apparently has a genderless 
> pronoun, and this is the closest equivalent that colloquial 
> English offers. At least, in my opinion.
> 
> I like most of the other suggestions, too, though I think "I 
> left my heart..." is already covered with Adrilankha (which 
> fits the meter better, as well).
> 

How about 'yo', made (in)famous recently through a combination of Baltimore
student use, horrible British journalism, and Language Log?

http://www.bignewsday.com/story.asp?code=BZ345203T&news=yo_being_used_as_gen
der-neutral_pronoun

Shawn





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