Out of curiosity, would you say My pronouns are neopronouns? I use capitalised pronouns too. And I’m also a god. Not a capital-G god, just a regular polytheistic kind. Does the acceptance of our current society play a role in whether they’re neopronouns? Are they new when I use them, and old when Deus uses them?
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think He/Him are neopronouns as the prefix neo- means new. Surely his would be old (paleopronouns), or timeless (aeternuspronouns), rather than new
Grail@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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yeather@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Newness is the quality of having been recently created or having started existing recently. The deific pronouns surely came before the standard canon of human/mortal pronouns, just as their subject deities predate humanity, perhaps both having always existed. It doesn’t have anything to do with societal acceptance.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Uh, pronouns are just words. They don’t have some innate quality that means they had to exist when the entities those pronouns describe began. He/Him is likely about as old as he/him.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The original post described them as neopronouns, which is a category of pronouns that have arisen recently due to changes in how we understand and descrive gender. Pronouns like xe/xer, for example. The pronouns for a timeless being that predates humanity would hardly be “new” by any standard. I was having fun with the idea they would be old or eternal pronouns by comparison to Humanity’s pronouns. You took the joke too seriously.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 month ago
Relative to eternity, the invention of the english language is pretty new