Nonbinary Stats survey 2016 had only two respondents using it out of over 3,000.Īla, alum, alis, ?, ?. Why this was moved to the talk page: No evidence of usage. Predicative possessive: If my mobile phone runs out of power, ae lets me borrow aers.Pronominal possessive: When someone does not get a haircut, aer hair grows long.Accusative: When I greet a friend I hug aer.Nominative: When I tell someone a joke ae laughs."In David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus (1920) a man from earth meets people on another planet who are neither man nor woman so he invents a new pronoun ae to refer to them." On Pronoun Island: Īe, aer, aer, aers, aerself. Predicative possessive: If I need a phone, my friend lets me borrow h*s.Pronominal possessive: When someone does not get a haircut, h*s hair grows long.Accusative: When I greet a friend I hug h*.Nominative: When I tell someone a joke *e laughs.However, splat pronouns didn't make an appearance in the 2015 or 2016 Nonbinary Stats surveys.
In 2002, 10 out of 4061 people on LambdaMOO had chosen to use splat pronouns for themselves. The multi-user online environment LambdaMOO offered these "splat" pronouns in addition to " Spivak" pronouns.
Some software and Internet resources in the 1990s used them informally as gender-neutral pronouns. Called "splat pronouns," because the asterisk symbol is also called a "splat," these all use an asterisk to represent ambiguity between "he" and "she." *e, h*, h*s, h*s, h*self (this was the exact set used in LambdaMOO).
The entries can be moved to the main article if they cite sources, and are used by many real people, and many respondants to the Gender Census. This section is for English pronouns that don't cite any sources, are used by only one or two real people, or were used by few or no respondants to the Gender Census. Frameacloud ( talk) 23:14, 27 June 2015 (CDT) English pronouns that don't meet notability requirements Frameacloud ( talk) 22:50, 27 June 2015 (CDT) In response to your concerns, I expanded the entry for "they" to include all four versions of its reflexive form (themself, theirself, theirselves, themselves) with dictionary sources cited to demonstrate that each form is commonly used.
The word "themself" is in the Oxford English Dictionary, which reports that it has been in use since the 14th century: By the way, please sign your talk entries so conversations make sense later see Help on talk pages to learn how. I think that themselves should be used because it's plural so consistent with all the other forms of this neutral pronoun: they, them, their, theirs. It seems it should either be themselves or theirself. Isn't themself incorrect? The them is plural, and self is singular.