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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> An exciting advantage is that "it" is personless, so people carrying
> multiple personalities or none at will feel offended no more ...

There was a Spider Robinson(?) story where an editor disparaged a
proposal of a new pronoun combining "she", "he", and "it".  The pronoun
itself was not precisely specified but the reader could figure it out.