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> Let's come up with a NEW word or words acceptable to all.
Nothing to it, Mike. I give you:
he she they -> e
him her them -> im
his her their -> er
his hers theirs -> ers
Note that "e" is a common element in both he and she. The
third-person plural is especially interesting: if you
consider "them" to be slightly irregular, the plural form is
"they/thei" plus the endings "m," "r," and "rs." Replacing
"they/thei" with "e" to get the genderless third-person
singular, we have:
em -> im
er
ers
I changed "em" to "im" in order to have four pronoun forms
that are already well known! Yes, Londoners, off wi' the
bleedin' "h":
he -> 'e
him -> 'im
her -> 'er
hers -> 'ers
The Alphacentauri.3.on must enter er assigned saucer (so the
methamix will be ers) and wait for the centriforce to eject
im from the mothership before e can buzz off to observe the
gender-impaired earthlings.
