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What are your favourite neopronouns? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi I was wondering what folk's here liked most in terms of neopronouns for first, second and third person.

If you don't know what that means:

First are things like I/me
Second are things like you and y'all
Third are things like they, she and he

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lois McMaster Bujold, writing science fiction in 1986 about a genetically engineered hermaphrodite used it/its for pronouns (when not using she or he)

I remember reading a goodreads answer later that she would have used they/them if it had been in common enough usage that she had encountered it.

(though in my mind '86 is relatively recent, but maybe I'm just old)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, I didn't know that, thank you!