There should be a gender-neutral pronoun in the English language, amirite?

There's "they," but that's not grammatically correct.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly. And then "he" isn't always accepted.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Good for animals, very, very bad for people. :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I use "s/he" a lot, but it's pretty awkward-looking.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And difficult to pronounce

by Anonymous 12 years ago

s (slash)he s slushee? yum

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"suh he" is how I would pronounce it from that. Probably no one would know what I was talking about.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He acually is gender neutral. Although some people who are trying to be "politically correct" Could throw a fit, if the gender if not 100% known, than he is acceptable to use.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

YES! For those awkward moments when you don't know whether the person you're talking about is a guy or a girl.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Just use shcle, or shcler.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It makes me sad that no one gets the Futurama reference. That episode is on right now actually.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

lexical gaps suck

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not completely positive, but isn't it xir?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you're talking about a person and it's not completely clear what his or her gender is, you can just not use pronouns. Sure, it makes speech a little awkward, but not nearly as awkward as if you use the wrong pronoun!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Shim has always worked for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

SHIMMY.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Who the hell really cares that much?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's ze for he/she, hir for her/him and hirs for her/his. They are not in the English language, and they refer to a person that does not fall into the gender binary.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They are not in the English language but are generally accepted*

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is. You just call them, "Pat."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I remember having a discussion about this in Honors Algebra II when I was a freshman. Apparently, it's "ze." However, I usually use "they" when I'm speaking and I"ll just find a way to rework the sentence when I'm writing something for a class where I'll get in trouble for using a grammatical structure that is technically incorrect, even though it's so commonly used that even Facebook uses "they" if someone hasn't selected a gender.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

..You?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is a gender-neutral pronoun- "one". As in "one should never presume to know more than one actually does.

by Anonymous 12 years ago