User:Proginoskes/Nonslarkish Flutzpahs

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.

Although originally intended for gender neutrality (referring to a person of unknown gender, instead of using singular they or "he/she"), these pronouns also serve (rather ambiguously, granted) to refer to a sapient being without gender.

Metasyntactic Variables

"Metasyntactic variable" isn't really a Part of Speech, but it is nevertheless a type of word I use extensively. Quoting the definition from the Jargon File entry: "A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion." Used most frequently in technical discussions, so they aren't too likely to appear here, but they might crop up now and again. The most common metasyntactic variables are "foo", "bar", and "baz".