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Taco Rubio
also quite creepy
Join date: 15 Feb 2004
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03-18-2005 14:11
Good Afternoon,
Often, while smoking and cursing in the parking lot at work, I find the need to talk absolute shit on an idiot co-worker or two. While I do this, occassionally there will be other people there, so that I'm not just talking to myself (I do talk to myself outloud, however).
At any rate, when others are there, I need to be able to talk absolute shite on idiot co-workers without using their names, and this is where the problem arises.
English, unlike most other languages, does not have a singular gender neutral pronoun. If I say "that tard, she fucked up the scanner", people realize that one male and one female use the scanner, and can thus deduce who I'm ranting at.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a singular gender neutral pronoun? Perhaps "shim", for example, as in
"that tard, shim fucked up the scanner"
Thanks for any help
Taco Rubio
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
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03-18-2005 14:31
Some Aspie peeps I knew on forums before used to spend hours pontificating about such things. For some reason "xer" turned out to be quite popular. And even if "they" is gramatically incorrect, people know what you mean, so it's practical usage overweighs any such style guidelines.  |
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
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03-18-2005 14:42
How about leaving it out?
"That tard fucked up the scanner"?
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Lo Jacobs
Awesome Possum
Join date: 28 May 2004
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03-18-2005 14:50
I like Nolan's suggestion.
Yes.
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Ghoti Nyak
καλλιστι
Join date: 7 Aug 2004
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03-18-2005 16:32
Or the Hannibal Lechter option, "It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose."
-Ghoti
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Lecktor Hannibal
YOUR MOM
Join date: 1 Jul 2004
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03-19-2005 19:26
From: Ghoti Nyak Or the Hannibal Lechter option, "It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose."
-Ghoti mmmmmmmmm
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