Risk 2210 is fantastic , many seem to consider it the best iteration <| sep |> It ' s not asking for an infinite absorption , and the only reason they ' re not being added is because people like you are being maliciously obstinate about the issue . No . Most people don ' t talk like this . Even people who claim to use these pronouns are doing it for political reasons hey , if you ' re allowed to claim it , then so am I and can ' t maintain the facade indefinitely . In my experience they drop the they stuff after a few drinks . And , to be clear , some people ARE asking for an infinte number of them , and they say things like it ' s no big deal , you could just program their pronoun into your phone along with their name and then you could remember it as though the only problem was remembering it . Even if I remember that your pronoun is per that doesn ' t mean it doesn ' t require tremendous effort on anyone ' s part to actually construct sentences that way . I really do contend that it can ' t realistically be done and that this discussion is foolish and far removed from reality . It will never happen , and professors won ' t actually be fired for not doing it but , if a professor comes out and says I won ' t do it ! well , that ' s something serious indeed that ' s badthink ! The pronouns aren ' t being refused on grounds of linguistic credibility there ' s literally no reason linguistically to not accept them , it ' s for bigoted or political reasons . So your claim is off base . You are wrong , there are linguistic reasons not to accept them . Try to incorporate that way of speaking into your own speech . You can ' t . And you shouldn ' t . It ' s perverse . And speaking is supposed to be easy . A more suspicious person might even say that making speaking more difficult was one of the goals or perhaps merely breaking people of the habit of wanting to speak plainly . Regardless , the words are not good tools . Like I said if they are good tools , people would use them on their own , without being asked . That ' s how good words catch on . If you have to ask someone to use your pronoun , then it ' s not going to catch on , and that ' s pretty much true of any word you can think of . Good words , useful words , spread of their own accord , because people find it useful to speak them . Now , it is conceivable that people might someday find it useful to replace he and she altogether and use they or another word it ' s unlikely to happen , but if it did , they and it are the most likely candidates . In a world where people actually wished to have standardized allpurpose , allgender pronouns , such a usage could very well catch on and spread organically , and while I would regard it as fundamentally absurd let ' s make the language less descriptive and precise for the sake of political correctness , it wouldn ' t get people ' s backs up in the same way that this issue does .