• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    The top comment confidently believes that “vs/are” in the profile referred to pronouns. They were incorrect.

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        “Ae” is actually one of the oldest coined non-binary pronouns, originating in the 1920 science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus, where it was used to describe members of an alien race. Its oblique and possessive determiner forms are both “aer”, a pun on the alien race being composed of air.

        The only result of “vs” I could find in a database of coined pronouns is as a possessive form of “v”, which I’m unsure if has any attestations. However, v/vs could be taken as a spelling or inflectional variant of ve/vis, which was first proposed as a gender-neutral pronoun all the way back in 1864.