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I'm sorry, but I can't bring myself to use "it" as someone's pronoun. It's basically a slur for LGBT people, and whether they're using it as a statement or reclaiming it or whatever, I just can't. But if someone's pronouns are exclusively "it/its" you have to use them pit of respect. That's just the way it is.
xe/xem/xers pronouns are pronounced like ze, zim, zers. they are similar to she, her, hers. ey/em/eirs are pronounced like ay, m, airs, and are similar to they/them/theirs. i have a nonbinary friend and xe use xe/xem/xers, originally i was against neopronouns but when xe explained it to me it made a lot of sense. Reply. 29 votes, 26 comments.
Neo- is just a prefix that means "new". Pretty much any set of pronouns that isn't established in daily societal use would be neopronouns. Both your examples of xe/xem/xir and bun/buns/bunself would be examples of neopronouns because they have been fairly recently created. Xeno- means foreign/other/alien.
This is the same case for your examples of plural "you": as long as someone in the set of people is being talked to directly, you can use the second person pronoun. Essentially, first person plural = speaker + others, second person plural = addressee (s) + others. Reply reply. just-a-melon. •• Edited.
Reflexive: Ximself. Examples: He said hello → Xe said hello. I waved to him → I waved to xim. It is his birthday → It is xis birthday. That book is his → That book is xis. He loves himself → Xe loves ximself. Tips: Each form of xe/xim/xis is parallel to he/him/his with an ‘x’ in place of the ‘h!’.
Pronouns are, by definition, words that can replace nouns. E.g. apples are red -> they are red, where apples is replaced by the pronoun they. This does not make apples a pronoun, but a noun. Of course bro can also be replaced with a pronoun, because it is also a noun. That's how nouns and pronouns work.
Funnily enough, pronoun DOES actually stand for "professional noun". u/savevideobot. Pronoun users when the connoun users walk in. "a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this )."
Definition: A pronoun takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns. The word or word group that a pronoun stands for is called the antecedent of the pronoun. Examples: Jay enjoys hiking and camping; in fact, they are his two favorite pastimes. [The nouns hiking and camping are the antecedents of the pronoun they.] One of the film projectors ...
First, Finnish is right next door, which like many non-IE languages doesn't systematically gender its nouns or pronouns. Second, the masculine and feminine genders merged in most cases - typically, two-gender IE languages merge masculine and neuter. Third, Finnish hän sounds enough like han and hon that, with a little adjustment, it fits right in.
A "pronoun warrior" is someone who attempts to destroy the life of anybody who doesn't want to use the non ...