You know, the things we have next to our usernames. This is an unedited stream of consciousness. I have been stewing on this for hours ever since I noticed that sometimes people post grammatically incorrect pronoun sets.
Case study: 3-word sets
Let us compare the three most commonly-seen pronoun sets: they/them/their, he/him/his, and she/her/… uhhhh it all falls apart around this point.
They are playing a game.
I am meeting them at the park.
We went to their house for dinner.
He is playing a game.
I am meeting him at the park.
We went to his house for dinner.
So far so good. But then we get to she, which is extremely often represented as she/her/hers:
She is playing a game.
I am meeting her at the park.
We went to hers house for dinner.
And that last one clearly isn’t right. So it should be she/her/her to be in line with the other two sets.
Yes, his functions in both roles, but I think it makes more sense to have the their type of word in the set of three, since it’s more common.
If you wanted to get extremely verbose to properly demonstrate what I’m talking about, we could make them into sets of four, with the fourth one being the hers type (sorry I don’t remember what the fancy names are for grammar terms):
they/them/their/theirs
he/him/his/his
she/her/her/hers
Case study: 2-word sets
Two-word pronoun sets are much more popular, and in the case of our previous examples all simply drop the last word from the three-word set:
they/them
he/him
she/her
No problems here. But I often see people say “it/its” (or worse, “it/it’s”), when if you follow the same pattern of all the other sets, it should clearly be it/it!!!
It is playing a game.
I am meeting it at the park.
We went to its house for dinner.
Anyway, [🔥 English]; thank you for reading.
This is why all pronouns should be eradicated
He
She
It
I
You
Y’all
me think get rid of pronoun. only talk like caveman. bunga
Only comrade
Unironically like this as part of radical gender abolition in a communist state as a means to end gender inequalities. If gender shouldn’t matter to anyone except the individual themselves, then call everyone “comrade” and eliminate gendered terms!
(In the world as it is, people understand and accept “call me by your own pronouns” more than “use “comrade” and plurals, please”, “mirror pronouns” is just the best way to ask for something I don’t mind much, but among communists, sure, let’s call everyone “comrade”!)
I’m sorry if I’m asking a silly question but how are you supposed to use the noun comrade as a pronoun?
I understand how “Comrade Markov wore zer/their/her/his hat”. But how do you use comrade as a pronoun? Is it “Comrade Markov wore comrade’s hat”?
Sometimes that is indeed done, in an attempt to be funny, but usually it is actually done more as “neutral pronoun/plural pronouns(which are the same set in English, which sucks) and use “comrade” instead of gendered terms when the grammar does fit”. Essentially how you’d refer to someone who’s selected the “comrade/them” pronoun set on this site.
pronouns are useful, it’s having two main defaults for third-person that gets us in trouble.
imagine if we had gendered I/me/my or you/your/yours :visible-disgust:
Oh yeah while we’re at it
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My conlang does both of these
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