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by thaweatherman 4468 days ago
Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense
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DanBC 4468 days ago
Xhe and xhem are real words in that real people use them in the real world.

Gender neutral pronouns are important to some people. Everything so far for English will either be made up, or have some problem.

I'm not sure why you think xhe makes less sense than either he or she.

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jeremysmyth 4468 days ago
The PR changes "the" to "xhe" and "they" to "xhey".

Regardless of what you might think of the gender inflexibility of "he" and "she", it's pretty clear that words like "the" and "they" are not candidates for progressive change regardless of your position on feminism.

The PR is satire, and judging by many of the comments on this thread, quite good satire!

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DanBC 4468 days ago
It is good satire! Or good trolling. I am enjoying it.

I didn't realise the search and replace for "he" was done poorly and includes "the". That possibly weaking the satire but increases the trolling.

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mschuster91 4468 days ago
Feminist do not make sense. If you want to see German Feminazis live in action then just read http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=addeacc3 ...
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