Snusmumrikken wrote:lamb wrote:Snusmumrikken wrote:
does anyone want to see my weird take on neopronouns because of the thread you guys linked like 750 years ago
yes
I would argue that claiming that sound strings carrying meaning, i.e. words, are neopronouns solely based on an idea that it is new or different is controversial at the very least. The only languages which are incapable of evolving are moribund or already considered dead, among them we find languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek, or perhaps Hittite to avoid any unnecessary controversy regarding the notion of change. Viable languages are constantly changing. Claiming that specific pronouns such as she/her is a neopronoun is nothing short of absurd; the vast majority of the European part of the Indo-European language family (if not the entire family as a whole) has at least a dual split in 3SG pronouns, for example German, Italian and Greek. If the definition of neopronoun is that it is something that was not initially present we would have to take a short view back to the past and look at how *Proto-Indo-European utilised pronouns, but I doubt that is something of any value here. It is also, perhaps, worth adding that what is currently the dominant gender neutral pronoun in English, namely they/them, is a loanword from Old Norse. According my own acquired knowledge, the daughter languages of Old Norse have traditionally allowed for they/them singular use, as polite markers such as Sie (German) and vous (French).
Okay so I wrote it as pretentious as I'm capable of at this hour
my last name is supposedly nordic did i ever tell u guys that 
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