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minus-squaretb_link2•3 days ago They would say: Drag likes cheese. Blueberry isn’t drag’s favorite. Drag knows what drag’s heart wants. If it is indeed a custom first person pronoun, they are using the wrong third person version of the verb. Which is odd, but also, like, whatever. I don’t have a horse in this race.
minus-squaresp3ctr4llinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 days ago If it is indeed a custom first person pronoun, they are using the wrong third person version of the verb. Correct. Dragon says they’re using ‘drag’ as a pronoun, but they actually are not. They are using it as a nickname whereby they constantly refer to themself in the third person. They don’t believe this is what they are doing, but it is what they are doing. Its not actually a coherent neopronoun structure that works within the grammatical rules of English. Further, I should add that Dragon states that their preffered ‘drag’ pronoun also operates in second person, on their profile. Meaning that if you were talking directly to Dragon and said: You like blueberries, right?’ …they would presumably view the use of ‘You’ as not respecting their preferred pronouns, which should instead be ‘Drag’.
If it is indeed a custom first person pronoun, they are using the wrong third person version of the verb.
Which is odd, but also, like, whatever. I don’t have a horse in this race.
Correct.
Dragon says they’re using ‘drag’ as a pronoun, but they actually are not.
They are using it as a nickname whereby they constantly refer to themself in the third person.
They don’t believe this is what they are doing, but it is what they are doing.
Its not actually a coherent neopronoun structure that works within the grammatical rules of English.
Further, I should add that Dragon states that their preffered ‘drag’ pronoun also operates in second person, on their profile.
Meaning that if you were talking directly to Dragon and said:
…they would presumably view the use of ‘You’ as not respecting their preferred pronouns, which should instead be ‘Drag’.