Singular Pronouns for NonBinary in Modern-Day Language and Early Education

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10 hours ago, jeezifonly said:

A friend recently pointed me to 

Zi /Zir /Zez 

(Zee Zear Zezz phonetically)

Zi walked the dog already.

The dog was so full of energy, he pulled zir down half a flight of stairs.

Zez elbows were banged up bad.

Written or spoken, it won’t be confused for another pronoun already in use. 

Easy on the palate, like the H and soft TH beginnings we have now for gendered pronouns and soft vowels to end. 

I don’t know. I’m in favor of something, but dislike re-use of an existing pronoun referring to multiple nouns. 

Yay to non-gendered!

Not a fan of  “they them their”
 

 

I consider myself lucky to have friends and colleagues who are not so self-centered and narcissistic to believe that they are entitled to demand that the world learn to use made up words to refer to them. But if I ever encounter such a person, I would simply never refer to them using pronouns. I would just always refer to them by name.