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28th August 2009

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ragbag: dear twitter: just as those oh-so-clever corner kids in baltimore grass-rootedly nominated yo as a gender-neutral pronoun, me and my bud have grass-rootedly decided to make the above edit* on your awful emails. [inflator alert]: fastfriend, alex whines sends word that i may have been too hasty yesterday in deflating you. yo points to this language log post that finds some convincing uses of the invented pronoun in the dialogue of the wire. __ *developing the nominative yo a step further yields: objective yom, possesive yos, and reflexive yoself. I am officially on board the “yo” train. That said, I have some issues with yoself as the reflexive… (an overlap with slang for the second person reflexive).

ragbag:

dear twitter:

just as those oh-so-clever corner kids in baltimore grass-rootedly nominated yo as a gender-neutral pronoun, me and my bud have grass-rootedly decided to make the above edit* on your awful emails.

[inflator alert]: fastfriend, alex whines sends word that i may have been too hasty yesterday in deflating you. yo points to this language log post that finds some convincing uses of the invented pronoun in the dialogue of the wire.

__

*developing the nominative yo a step further yields: objective yom, possesive yos, and reflexive yoself.

I am officially on board the “yo” train. That said, I have some issues with yoself as the reflexive… (an overlap with slang for the second person reflexive).

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