Huh. I think I've been mostly using "its" for entities that are distinctively non-person, never occurred to me otherwise. A quick web search on Spivak defines it as gender-neutral only (and all examples I see are to show replacements for genders). Not that Agora can't support it's own peculiar version, I just haven't been doing so personally.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 12:50 PM ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-02-07 at 15:40 -0500, D. Margaux wrote: > > I have no objection if people want to use the singular “they,” but I > > have come to enjoy the peculiar (and IMO elegant) Agoran style of > > e/em/eir. > > > > Perhaps the Rules could provide that Agorans SHOULD use gender > > neutral pronouns, without legislating specifically which ones? > > I like the way that "e/em/eir" are not just gender-neutral but > sentience-neutral (i.e. they cover all of "she/her/her", "he/him/his", > and "it/it/its"). That's useful when you have legal fictions that can > do some of the same thing persons can do. > > -- > ais523 >
