No, it really doesn’t. Or, rather, it does, but only in the same sense that Brainfuck has the power to express everything in Python (it is Turing complete). English can express just about anything, but whether it can express it *well* is a separate matter.
-Aris On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think conventional English still has the linguistic power to represent > that anyways. > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 21:49, 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 > > > > >
