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 > If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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 > —Zora Neale Hurston
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-[In a February 2021 Facebook post, Eliezer Yudkowsky inveighs against English's system of singular third-person pronouns](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228). As a matter of clean language design, you shouldn't have to identify a subject as female or male just in order to refer to them with a pronoun.
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-Considerations—
- * Scifi and mystery authors
- * it and they are more ambiguous, can refer to non-agent parts of speech
- * they gets conjugated as a plural even in singular usage
- * pronouns in English are less bad than Hebrew nouns
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-Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/