X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fa-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md;h=97a2b7e8836dd9303576f44d9285047b41609fe7;hb=HEAD;hp=c47c4f4e6cfcd40c44455071f3d858982f932a0c;hpb=6473fc62df3d356c22092f3ea98eeba06acef514;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md deleted file mode 100644 index c47c4f4..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -Title: A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning -Date: 2022-01-01 11:00 -Category: commentary -Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy -Status: draft - -> If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. -> -> —Zora Neale Hurston - -[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. - - -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 - -Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/