I want to propose a major change to the English language, what are the steps I need to take?

Danish/Norwegian use the reflexive pronoun ';sit'; to refer back to the subject, whether or not the subject is male or female.



English has no such feature. For example, we can either say, ';the user has firefox installed on HIS computer'; or ';the user has firefox installed on HER computer';. In Danish, the word ';sit'; would essentially be used in place of the Danish equivalent for HIS or HER.



So English needs something like this: ';the user has firefox installd on SIT computer'; (and we would all take SIT to be either masculine, feminine or both, depending on the context).



I really think it would solve problems with people using the male gender to mean both genders.



How would I go about proposing this change to the English language? I am serious about this. Thanks in advance.I want to propose a major change to the English language, what are the steps I need to take?
There is no ';Royal Academy of the English Language'; with power to accept or reject changes. Language is organic and cannot be mandated, even in countries ruled by monarchies.



How would you go about proposing this change? You just finished doing all you can do.



But using the Danish word would not work anyway because everyone would just assume it was a typo for 'its'.I want to propose a major change to the English language, what are the steps I need to take?
You can't. It's actually, literally, and in all other ways impossible to ';change'; a language just by submitting a proposition to a committee. The only way to do it is to use the word in language, and make others do so until it catches on.
there is no such problem in normal english because we use the word 'their'. the only problem is that self-appointed language experts, who precisely by making the pronouncements they do reveal themselves to be ignoramuses in this area, keep fighting against this wonderful innovation in the language. and, of course, if anyone where to try your idea, the same pedants would be in the vanguard of the battle to stop you. note, by the way, that english, being a germanic language, once has pronoun forms cognate with the 'sit/sin' word but lost it. your cause is romantic but hopeless.
Contact the office of the President of English. Or the Prime Minister of English, if you're over yonder. Just don't pester the Queen about it, K?
We could use ';seg'; for the generic reflexive pronoun. Or we could use ';ce';, but spell it as ';莽e'; just to be different. Let us agree between us to begin doing that now. Everyone else will catch on and follow us. Det var sikkert!
Of course ';their'; is incorrect, but, hey, that's what 'they' use. Everyone says (right or wrong) : ';Everyone has their issues'; even careful newscasters do this (much to the displeasure of people like me who are purists.';

Sit (spelled SITTin Norwegian and Swedish,) refers back to the 3rd person subject (singular or plural, you are right), but would you like to have to conjugate the possessive pronoun for gender (sin bil, si klokka, sitt hus) and number 'sine biler, klokker, hus)?



And in Norwegian, you still need to use hans 'his'm hennes 'hers' if someone else owns the object. Deres if they own it. So as you see, the Scandinavian system is far from simple either,



Pronouns are exceedingly open for historical development in all the Germanic languages, and I'll bet if you can wait another 50 years, there will be a natural development. (You know the distinction between 'who' and 'whom' has all but disappeared in the last 50 years.