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Pietro_Mercurios
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PostPosted: 09-10-2013 08:30    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spookdaddy wrote:
gncxx wrote:
It's good to know the world's meeting-o-leaders aren't wasting their time and are really getting to grips with the most pressing issues facing us.


To be honest though, there's a distinct possibility that we've spent longer on it than they have.

Especially since it's pretty obvious that some still haven't grasped why the language shifted and changed in the early modern period, with the birth of modern capitalism and why, if it's not important, it's still interesting.

Who knows, if Chairman Mao had settled for being addressed as, The Chair, perhaps there wouldn't have been quite the same cult of, The Leader, grown up around him?

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PostPosted: 13-10-2013 12:25    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's our page on future pronouns, which takes into account the differences between male, female, neutral, inanimate, hermaphrodite, entities of virtual sex and aliens
http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/495360fba7a46
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