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new members are required to post a short hello to the forum, revealing something about themselves.

I read such an introduction today that had this title:

Good day ladies , gentlemen and gentlethems

Quite clever and politically correct, too.
 
new members are required to post a short hello to the forum, revealing something about themselves.

I read such an introduction today that had this title:

Good day ladies , gentlemen and gentlethems

Quite clever and politically correct, too.
That's awesome!
 
new members are required to post a short hello to the forum, revealing something about themselves.

I read such an introduction today that had this title:

Good day ladies , gentlemen and gentlethems

Quite clever and politically correct, too.

And an unfortunate muddying of the English language. I dislike using either third person or plural pronouns to refer to one person who chooses to identify as a gender other than male or female. I think we'd do better coming up with new pronouns for that purpose so that the language doesn't get confused — it starts to become troublesome to identify to what you are referring when the same pronoun is used for, say, reference to a group of people and also to a single third gender person.
 
And an unfortunate muddying of the English language.

I am unsure if the person agrees with everyone selecting a personal pronoun, or was merely being polite to avoid unnecessary attacks by ignoring those who desire to use their "unique" definition of pronouns.

Heck, some people cringe if you use lady or ladies.

I was told by someone who says lady is a term of social status, rather than a gender identifier.

As I continued the conversation she told me that only male and female should be used to identify those who don't wish to use their own pronoun.

The language was muddied decades ago.

English as spoken and written today is polluted.
 
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