One of the great philosophers of mathematics Gottlob Frege made quite an issue of the fact that mathematicians didn't know the meaning of One. What is One? Nobody could answer coherently. Of course Frege answered, but his answer was no better, or even worse, than the previous ones. And so it has continued to this very day, strange and incredible as it is. We know all about so much mathematics, but we don't know what it really is.
Reuben Hersh, What Kind of Thing Is a Number?, A Talk with Reuben Hersh [2.10.97], Edge
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Gotta ask, is it just Liza and Hershey or is there another member? Also how did Hershey find Liza?
HI HI!
Hershey's mercenary group is, I'm planning, made up of four people. Hershey herself is the leader, and she found and more or less adopted Liza (I mean it's not like anyone signed any paperwork) when the latter was around 9 years old.
The other two members of the group came in later.... and I wonder how much more I should say other than that one sketch I did of Julie-Su as a mole is incredibly relevant lmao
The HOW of how Hershey found Liza is also a bit up in the air, I think Liza took a while to open up about her childhood Hershey was pretty familiar with those kinds of stories.
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K. Remaking this post because the OP is deactivated so I can't click on any names to add image descriptions or plain text.
trender-typhlosion (deactivated) said:
Neopronouns are not a “tumblr fad”. Gender neutral pronouns other than they/them have existed in the English language for actual centuries. They are not harmful to the trans community.
To those who are against neopronouns, you’re acting against the evolution of a language and acting against something that’s been around for far longer than you’ve been alive.
To those who use neopronouns, your pronouns are not harmful. You do not deserve to be made to feel ashamed for your pronouns.
boobless-wonder said, August 10th 2019:
Op you can’t just drop this and expect us to not ask what the old school gender neutral pronouns were!!! How on earth are all my nb friends gonna pick the dapper pronouns????
fallon-has-opinions (Deactivated? Now an empty blog) said:
I found these doing very minimal research:
Ey/Em/Eir (1975, created by Christine M. Elverson)
E/Em/Es (1890, created by James Rogers)
Per/Pers/Perself (1976, Used in a novel by Marge Piercy)
Thon/Thos/Thonself (1858, Created by Charles Crozat Converse)
Ve dates back to 1980
Xe dates back to 1973
In 1789, William Marshall confirmed the use of both“a” and “ou” as a replacement for he/she/they and even i.
Co/Coself (1970, created by Mary Orovan)
Ne (1850, appeared in print in 1884)
En (1868, mentioned by Richard Grant White)
Han/Hans/Hanself (1868)
Un/Uns/One (1868)
Se/Sis/Sim (1884)
Hesh/Hiser/Himer (1879)
Hi/Hes/Hem (1884)
Le/Lis/Lim (1884)
Hersh/Herm (1884)
Ip/Ips (1884)
Hae/Haes(Hais)/Haim (1884)
Tha/Thare/Them(Thon) (1885)
Zyhe/Zyhe’s/Zyhem (1885)
Ir/Iro/Im (1888)
De/Der/Dem (1888)
Hor/Hors/Horself (1890)
Ith/Iths (1890)
Sources for these as well as many others that I didn’t add due to the list getting too long can be found here. [[Unfortunately, the original link is broken, and no version available on the web archive :( ]]
An interesting note is that in the modern language a lot more people use neopronouns then you would expect!
Yo is a majorly African American pronoun coined in 2004 and used by Middle School students In Baltimore, Maryland.
Fae/Faer, coined in 2014, is used by 4.3% of participants in the 2019 Gender Census.
Plus a vast variety of newly coined pronouns that you will have seen commonly floating around!
Neopronouns have existed and been recorded for a long time, they are not a new concept, nor are they MOGAI or a tumblr concept. They are not modern, there have just been many modern adaptions to already existing pronouns.
As another addition from me, Ae/aer pronouns are from 1920, from the scifi/philosophy/??? book, A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Linsey.
You can download it or read it for free here on Project Gutenberg:
"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329"
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i have the worst good music education ever. i just found out that kim deal was in the pixies despite a minor obsession with her solo work and the breeders. just fully didnt know. or i forgot. i also thought kate bush and kristin hersh had comparable levels of fame because i listened to them both when i was 9
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