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Nonslarkish Flutzpahs
“This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context” –David Moser
The following are words and punctuation marks I may use that aren't, strictly speaking, part of standard English. I'll separate them by Part of Speech.
Pronouns
Almost everyone, I'm sure, is familiar with the "shi" series of pronouns for hermaphrodites. Can't say I'm a fan (they're difficult to pronounce differently from feminine pronouns), but they've become the de facto standard. Much less well-known are the "Spivak" pronouns, a variety of related pronoun sets intended for generic and genderless third-person singular. The version I use goes as follows:
| Declension | Pronoun | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ey | Ey studies CompSci. |
| Object | Em | You give em the book. |
| Possessive Adjective | Eir | Now it's eir book. |
| Possessive Pronoun | Eirs | Ey gives you a book of eirs. |
| Reflexive | Emself | Ey wrote it emself. |