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grammar, queerpol 

Tell your local pronoun purist that Ben Jonson said they could fuck off and die THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago.

SIX genders, baby.

(They probably won't know who Ben Jonson is, but YOU'LL know he was widely hailed as the 2nd most important dramatist in British history next to Shakespeare. So, yeah.)

grammar, queerpol 

@zebratron2084

... well fuck I cannot really disagree with the way he grouped that either.

Why hasn't this description stayed in common use?

grammar, queerpol 

@zebratron2084 Wow, we need Doubtful and Common in our gender lexicon, like, yesterday.

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