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-Title: Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
-Date: 2022-01-01 11:00
-Category: commentary
-Tags: Eliezer Yudkowsky
-Status: draft
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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, English's lack of a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun is a design flaw: you shouldn't have to identify a subject as female or male just in order to be able to refer to her or him with a pronoun.
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-This affects, for example, science-fiction authors writing about AIs or hermaphroditic aliens (which don't have a sex), or mystery authors writing about a crime suspect whose identity (and therefore, sex) is unknown.
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-It would be wrong to suggest 
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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/