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Monday, October 16, 2006

English is lame

"In English, there just isn't a personal pronoun to express [God's] kind of Life/Personality that isn't either exclusively male or exclusively female. The only nongender pronoun in English is impersonal (it). Since God is neither impersonal nore exclusively male nor exclusively female nor neuter (meaning less than male or female), none of these pronoun options satisfy." - Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy

i'm tired of it. if- lol haha.. i didn't even intend that pun. *proudface*

but seriously, i'm tired of not having a personal pronoun of ambiguous gender reference. there needs to be one. and so, i am creating a new set of words.

"le" - he, she
"len" - him, her
"lor" - his, her (possessive)

this word refers to a personal creature who might be male, or might be female, or might be beyond these categories! let's give it a try, shall we??

"If someone wants to be listened to, le should begin by first listening to!"

yes-likey? no-likey? let's play with it a little more.

"A certain student of mine, who will remain anonymous, recently found lenself running out of laundry money."
(interesting form, there...)

"Le who laughs last, laughs longest."
(females should get to be included, too. it's politically correct.)

"I'm having trouble following you," le said to len.
(if genders were applied, it might read 'he said to her' or 'she said to him.')

"God is three, and yet Le is one."
(notice the capitalization of our new pronoun. whee!)

"This Isjami-person... I've never met len. Is le male or female?"
(okay, i admit, i am sometimes a tad bit feminine... for a guy, anyway...)

"The unidentified burglar reached for lor handgun...."
(normally we would say 'their' there, but 'they' is plural, isn't it???)

hopefully you've enjoyed my break from homework as much as i have. =) stay tuned.

1 Comments:

Kevin said...: Anybody know a prominent grammarian we could submit this idea to?; 9:31 AM