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• 2012-07-14

  A gender-neutral third-person pronoun has arisen spontaneously as a part of kids' slang in Baltimore

  ceruleancynic:

  queerandpresentdanger:

  “What’s also interesting about the kids’ language is that people — mostly academics — have been trying to introduce a gender-neutral singular pronoun into the English language for about 200 years, with very little success. And then a group of kids in Baltimore just make one up and start using it.”

  Huh. 

  (via wolvensnothere)

  Source: motherfuckerofbabylon

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     SO COOL. I love, love, love slang—it’s so quick and adaptive and you can see the English language changing right before...

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      For the bold. Yes.

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      I wish people reblogging this article would acknowledge this! Ethnic ties totally do matter; taking language that you...

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      I’ve noticed this around my area too. I’m voting that “yo” be the official gender neutral pronoun for the english...

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      “yo”. This is what happens when we leave important thinks to children. “Yo”.

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