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Ben Zimmer
Bio link:
http://benzimmer.com/
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Ben Zimmer is a linguist, lexicographer, and language columnist for The Wall Street Journal. - from BenZimmer.com
Positions
Question
What should we use as gender-neutral pronouns for non-binary people?
Position
We should use the already-familiar "they/them" as a gender-neutral pronoun for non-binary persons
Argument
Using they/them is already familiar to us
“While many novel gender-neutral pronouns have been proposed, 'they' has the advantage of already being part of the language.”
Chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society
8 January 2015
https://www.americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they
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