• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 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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      20 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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        20 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?’