[Ads-l] Preferred Pronoun--pragmatics and policy

[David Kendal]

> On 11 Oct 2016, at 22:26, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
> 
> I prefer "his majesty," but it's already taken:
> 
> http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29230/

"Motherfucker" is also sadly gone:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comicsandcosplay/comics/critical-miss/11086-We-ve-Seen-The-Future-And-It-s-NSFW

More seriously, I started collecting resources on strange pronouns
a while ago and never really finished. But you can get some sense of
the historical attempts in this direction from what I did achieve:
http://dpk.io/artificialpronouns

dpk (David P. Kendal) · Nassauische Str. 36, 10717 DE · http://dpk.io/
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