The neopronoun flag by Tumblr user Ferns Garden @Beanjamoose. The pronouns I found that's “inherently” gender-neutral so far.
Of course, there’s also pronouns “inherently” fem [She/Her] and “inherently” masc [He/Him], and we can argue the "inherency" of Archaeopronouns until the pronouns of today join its grouping. But pronouns inherency is irrelevant to the individual. (which is why I put quotes around it)
Pronouns are a type of expression, and how one views that expression is on them. No matter your gender modality, if a pronoun set makes you happy, use them! If they don't, then don't. And simply if someone's pronouns are odd use them for them cuz someone might not.
To make sure we're on the same page: There's interrogative (who/whom/whose, what/which), first person (I/me/my/mine/myself, us/we/our/ours/ourselves), second person (you/your/yours/yourself), and then third person, which is what this part is in reference to.
Pronouns are used to replace a noun in a sentence(; Nouns refers to a person, place, or thing.) And there are five standard types:
Subject pronouns: pronouns that perform the action in a sentence. (E.g: This morning they went to the park.)
Object pronouns: pronouns that receive the action in a sentence. (E.g: I brought them a cake.)
Possessive adjectives: are words that modify a noun to show a form of possession, a sense of belonging or ownership to a specific person, animal or thing. (E.g: they brought their guitar.)
Possessive pronouns: a pronoun that can take the place of a noun phrase to show ownership. (E.g: I think that's theirs, actually.)
Reflexive pronouns: words typically ending in -self or -selves that are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same. (E.g: Throwing a frisbee to theirself. (And) they live by themself.)
Each one of these plays an important part in speech and text grammar, but can be worked around using if need be. Something you might already know subconsciously or otherwise, but still needs to be reinstated every once in a while for some people.
But you may see that there’s a confusing bit to the Reflexive pronouns, but I found a way to explain the oddities in common speech, with examples that will be colour coding when I figure it out!
This is based off my observation of the social use of Reflexive pronouns: formal use does not use possessive-reflexive pronouns (PRP), but it's not commonly considered grammarly incorrect to use PRP.
| Subject pronouns | Object pronouns | Possessive adjective | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive pronoun |
|---|
| They | Them | Their | Theirs | Themself |
|---|
This example has a non-matching OP/PA, with the OPself being represented in the full set as the RP. This usually indicates a PAself possessive-RP, also known as Non-Standard-RP.
| One | One | One's | One's | Oneself |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| She | Her | Her | Hers | Herself |
This example has a matching OP/PA, thus a change with contexts to the RP is unneeded.
| Ze | Mer | Zir | Zirs | Zirself |
|---|
This example has a non-matching OP/PA, but the PAself is represented as the standard in the full set. This usually indicates no changes with context.
| Xin | Xeno | Xenine | Xenic | Xinself |
|---|
This is a fairly new method to me, I believe. As you can see, the SP and the RP matches: I would personally read this as a type of unchanging RP.
| Fee | Fee | Fi | Fies | Fieself |
|---|
This is a type of unchanging RP, that I've only recently noticed I feel like I've seen many times.
| Fir | Fix | Fix/Fens | Fens | Flairself |
|---|
This example has a standard RP that doesn't match any of the others. This usually indicates a non-changing RP, because there's no examples for it to change to.
