• Evkob@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    I’ve tried searching for “person-independent neopronouns” and failed to find any results.

    Care to explain how this is different than referring to one’s self in the third person? Because I’ll be honest, I have a hard time wrapping my head around this.

    My respect isn’t conditional to my understanding, but I feel I could respect better if I understood more.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      My interpretation here is the first person (I), second person (you), and third person (he/she/they) pronouns are disregarded and are all represented by the neopronoun “drag”.

      I.e. use drag whenever you reference dragonfucker and you’re golden.

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        23 days ago

        If you just one for one swap you run into weird grammar.

        What do drag want to do?

        Is that right or…?

        • Rain World: Slugcat Game@lemmy.world
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          23 days ago

          same with swapping in ‘they’! i think most pronouns are singular, only ‘they’ is plural due to legacy junk, see:

          • what does he want to do?
          • what does drag want to do?
          • what does the cat want to do?
          • what do they want to do?
          • what do the cats want to do?

          perhaps we should move towards singular they, eg ‘what does they want to do?’