On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:14:08 -0500, you wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>I posted this to one of the face book Traveller groups, so you may have
>seen it.  I'm looking for as much input on this as possible.

>Semi random question about pronouns. I'm in the process of doing a
>weapon and vehicle book. For Reasons, I don't want to use the English
>generic "he/him/his".

>I have, at this point what I think are two primary options.
>1) use she/her/hers (which given that lead example character is a female
>human makes some sense) or
>use Spivak LambdaMOO pronouns. This does have the force of history
>behind it, given it was made for gaming with. Any thoughts?
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

My personal preference, accepting your Reasons, would be to go with
she/her/hers; if your reasons extend to preferring to avoid using
English gendered pronouns entirely, I'd say to go with the Elverson
rather than the LambdaMOO spivak (only real difference is Elverson "ey"
for spivak "e"; the Elverson just looks 'less wrong' to me). I'm not,
however, fond of coined pronouns in general, or of forcing the language
into shapes contrary to its natural evolution-to-date, and would suggest
that re-examining Reasons to see if they're that important would be a
Good Idea.

I do know that in his Honorverse, David Weber tends to use
unspecified-gender pronouns to match the gender of the viewpoint
character - that is, male characters will say/think he/him/his, while
female characters will say/think she/her/hers.

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