New pronouns irk grammarians

[LostInTime]

Nashua Telegraph
By WILLIAM WEIR, The Hartford Courant
Published: Tuesday, Jul. 10, 2007

Beyond grammatical and aesthetic concerns are the sociopolitical. Folks in the transgender community have long charged that "he" or "she" forces them into categories they don't necessarily identify with.

DeLuna says "hu" has been well-received within the transgender community. And she has given her creation a jump-start of sorts: She recently edited a book of essays about the historian J.G.A. Pocock and insisted that the book's writers use the pronoun. "I had to be very tactful," she says, but added that all the contributors went along with it.

[RebeccaFog]

I saw that the article was posted July 10, but I know I read the exact same article about a month ago. It may even have been from a link I followed from this site.

[LostInTime]

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,14617.0.html

But the article that was linked was moved or deleted by the website.

[RebeccaFog]

I was just curious. I was thinking that someone stole that article.  Plus, I was shocked that I remembered it.

Since I'm here, I just want to say that the word "irk" irks me.