Ah, but surely Yvain has high enough status in this particular community that we can consider him (her? zim? zer? What z-pronoun goes here?) as a groundbreaking visionary instead?
If you’re going to be an iconoclast, do so in one dimension only, for if you try to be novel and controversial in multiple dimensions, the resistance/drag factors stack up for each independent dimension of controversy.
Robin has a great post on this, but I can’t find it. An upvote to the first finder.
I prefer Ve, because that was the first one I came across. I forget which one Eliezer uses, but I have seen him use one, so we are ground breaking in a number of different directions. I’d like to standardise if possible and they (sing) is not sufficient.
Ah, but surely Yvain has high enough status in this particular community that we can consider him (her? zim? zer? What z-pronoun goes here?) as a groundbreaking visionary instead?
If you’re going to be an iconoclast, do so in one dimension only, for if you try to be novel and controversial in multiple dimensions, the resistance/drag factors stack up for each independent dimension of controversy.
Robin has a great post on this, but I can’t find it. An upvote to the first finder.
Zir or hir. According to wikipedia)
I prefer Ve, because that was the first one I came across. I forget which one Eliezer uses, but I have seen him use one, so we are ground breaking in a number of different directions. I’d like to standardise if possible and they (sing) is not sufficient.
I always thought ve was limited to transhumans.
“Ve” was supposed to be for actual gender-neutral entities, transhuman or otherwise. In any case I gave up and started using “they” or “it”.
In my book, ey/em/eir is the only semifeasible option, because it’s memorable.