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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.