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What are your favourite neopronouns? (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months 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 3 months ago (6 children)

Personally I count it/its as neopronouns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

While it/its is newer than he, she and they, I wouldn't consider a pronoun created in the 16th century 'new'.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Sure, however its positive or neutral usage for people is relatively new as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

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

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