English neutral pronouns: Difference between revisions
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* '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''himself or herself''. | * '''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''himself or herself''. | ||
=== | === Hu === | ||
'''hu, hum, hus, hus, humself'''. Several times since the 1970s, pronoun neologisms have been created based on a "humanist" model using <u>hu</u>man as a base or root source for pronouns. These attempts have been about using nominally gender-inclusive or neutral source etymologies in order to create new pronouns with familiar and hence more easily understood spelling and pronunciation. This new humanist model takes these prior efforts and expands it to include options for pronouns, nouns, honorifics and more--and an (eventually) complete framework / model for neutral and inclusive English. | '''hu, hum, hus, hus, humself'''. Several times since the 1970s, pronoun neologisms have been created based on a "humanist" model using <u>hu</u>man as a base or root source for pronouns. These attempts have been about using nominally gender-inclusive or neutral source etymologies in order to create new pronouns with familiar and hence more easily understood spelling and pronunciation. This new humanist model takes these prior efforts and expands it to include options for pronouns, nouns, honorifics and more--and an (eventually) complete framework / model for neutral and inclusive English. | ||
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'''On Posilicious:''' [https://posilicious.com/2020/08/27/gender-neutral-english-new-humanist-model/ Gender Neutral and Inclusive Humanist English] | '''On Posilicious:''' [https://posilicious.com/2020/08/27/gender-neutral-english-new-humanist-model/ Gender Neutral and Inclusive Humanist English] | ||
=== Hy === | |||
'''hy, hym, hys, hys, hymself'''. Although rarely used nowadays, these pronouns date back to Middle English, in which they were an alternate spelling of he/him/his/his/himself. | |||
A 1991 Usenet user wrote: | |||
{{quote|I rather like Norman Cousin's proposal for a new personal pronoun of indeterminate or insignificant gender (he made this back in the '60s): ne/ner/nim (as in Not He/She, Not her, and Not Him). Of course, we could always extend the "womyn" paradigm and spell he, his, and him with a "y": hy, hys, and hym.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/g/rec.martial-arts/c/55Ckn-bd380/m/EIErfset5HMJ|last=Gombosi|first=Steve|date=11 November 1991|title=rec.martial-arts}}</ref>}} | |||
In 1997, another Usenet user noted these pronouns were in use as masculine pronouns for some members of the furry community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.furry/c/OKacXiwTEk0/m/v-NDSEzAeIwJ|date=14 August 1997|last=Koehler|first=Tobias|quote=There is hy/hys/hym (he-fluff), shy/hyr/hyr (she-fluff), han/per/per, yt/yts/yt, sie/hir/hir .... use what you like :) Of course you can just use `it' if you like to be genderneutral.|title=alt.fan.furry}}</ref> | |||
'''Forms:''' | |||
*'''Nominative:''' When I tell someone a joke ''hy'' laughs. | |||
*'''Accusative:''' When I greet a friend I hug ''hym''. | |||
*'''Pronominal possessive:''' When someone does not get a haircut, ''hys'' hair grows long. | |||
*'''Predicative possessive:''' If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow ''hys''. | |||
*'''Reflexive:''' Each child feeds ''hymself''. | |||
'''On Pronoun Island:''' https://pronoun.is/hy/hym/hys/hys/hymself | |||
===It=== | ===It=== | ||