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The adjective sounds even better than the noun. And the adverb? "Ignoranally enough, that does make even less sense than expected."
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Are there any languages that have a gender-neutral word for a person, instead of "he" or "she"? This would make things easier when describing a person when you don't know their gender, they are in between genders, or you don't want to reveal their gender. ("The person I am in a relationship with"!)

I've heard some hippies call it "co" and some other words.

There is overwhelmed and underwhelmed, but there isn't just "whelmed". I've started using "whelmed" in cases where I'm chilled, relaxed, just dealing with a situation with the a balanced level of emotion--not too much, not too little! As in "OK, so you have a new girlfriend. I'm whelmed."
Lots of languages have gender-neutral pronouns for people, because lots of languages lack gender as a category. Finnish, for example. I believe Mandarin Chinese is another and Persian / Farsi is another. Correct me if I'm wrong on the latter two, somebody who knows. Those are just three that spring to mind.
In the past, the 19th century, American English had a pronoun meaning he or she. The word was thon. For some reason it dropped out of common usage. I feel, that, today, with the emphasis on being nonsexist, this could and probably should make a comeback.
Wow, I love the word "malefit"!
I believe I have just coined a word describing a person who is enamored of and pursues the odd, the weird,
the off the wall. The word is bizarrophiliac.
I like it Joseph.


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