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JadeNB
on Feb 24, 2012
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> … check out Greg Egan. They have written lots of scifi on this topic.
I love, and I fancifully imagine that he would too, the idea of referring to Greg Egan as 'they'.
rmc
on Feb 24, 2012
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"They" can also be used as a (gender neutral) singular third party pronoun in English, and has been used that way since Shakespeare.
JadeNB
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I am only slightly less amused by the idea that one needs a gender-neutral pronoun to refer to Greg Egan. :-)
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I love, and I fancifully imagine that he would too, the idea of referring to Greg Egan as 'they'.