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Bored-Again Shell: Gender-neutral Pronoun Proposal
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Short story: Lojban’s acronym pro-sumti, appropriated for English.
Elaboration: Whenever you see a lone letter (or acronym) used as a pronoun, it refers to the closest (or most contextually obvious) noun phrase that begins with it (or matches it acronym-wise). I leave details such as…
For those of you who are lazy and don’t want to read, here are two helpful examples from the full post:
- “I have a friend who wants me to tell you that f likes your shoes.”
- “Every person knows p’s own limits.”
I like the idea. It’s very elegant because you’re not adding any more meaning into the sentence since the ~pronoun is the word it refers to.
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