Here's an excerpt from a Peggy Noonan column I saw today; it's so ludicrous that it made me laugh.
"Offices and schools are forced to grapple with all the new
gender-neutral pronouns. Here a handy guide from a website purporting to help
human-resources departments in midsize businesses. It is headlined. 'Gender
Neutral Pronouns—What They Are & How to Use Them.'
He/She—Zie, Sie, Ey, Ve, Tey, E
Him/Her—Zim, Sie, Em, Ver, Ter, Em
His/Her—Zir, Hir, Eir, Vis, Tem, Eir
Himself/Herself—Zieself, Hirself, Eirself, Verself, Terself, Emself
It’s wrong, when you meet a new co-worker, to ask his
pronouns. (We don’t say 'preferred' pronouns—that 'implies someone’s gender is
a preference'!) You don’t want him wondering if you think he’s transgender or
nonbinary. Instead, introduce yourself in a way that summons his pronouns: 'Hi,
I’m Jim and my pronoun is he/him.' Use 'they' a lot. It’s gender neutral.
Suggested sentence: 'I spoke to the marketing director and they said they’d get
back to me.'
This is grammatically incorrect but so what? Correct
grammar, and the intelligibility it allows, is a small price to pay for
inclusion and equality.
We are being asked to memorize all this, to change hundreds
of years of grammar and usage, to accommodate the needs or demands of a group
that perceives itself as beleaguered."
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We "may be asked to memorize all this", but no rational person in his right mind is going to change the way he speaks just to appease a tiny delusional fraction of the population! Besides, those ridiculous made-up words sound German!
Friday, July 26, 2019
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