Book Review: “The Record of Ellie, an Autistic Child” in Mathematics as Metaphor.
Abstract concepts dealing with human relationships
- Use “you” for yourself
- An abstract concept about human relations, such as he, she, they, etc., just happens to be the way the person acquiring it perceives the world, not the way the world is in fact.
- Recently, some people use the gender-neutral “they” for the singular third person because they consider the “he/she” indicator inappropriate based on the implicit process that the human gender is binary.
- However, the Japanese equivalent of “they” is “they”, which is the pluralizing ending “ra” for “he”, which is not gender-neutral
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