I don’t use Dragon’s pronoun structure in my own speech because it is extremely confusing…as I attempted to explain.
‘They/them’ is significantly less confusing, and is widely accepted as a gender non-specific pronoun.
Sure, Dragon would likely prefer I use ‘Drag’ where I used ‘They’ but the whole problem here is that doing so is confusing.
So I am using the commonly accepted gender non determinative pronoun, which is understandable to everyone, or just avoid pronouns and use Dragon as their name… because the second part of their name has changed, and a lot of people know them by a different second part…
Anyway…
Dragon claims to use ‘drag’ as a ‘person independent pronoun’ in ‘first second and third person’ which is functionally indistinguishable from constantly referring to yourself in the third person with a nickname, and preferring that others refer to you with a custom pronoun in both second and third person.
Here’s my best attempt at constructing the whole pronoun chart.
Subj // Obj // Pssv Adj // Pssv Prn // Rflx
First Person (Used by Dragon):
I // Me // My // Mine // Myself
Drag // Drag // Drag’s // Drag’s // Dragself
Second Person (Preffered use when referring to Dragon):
You // You // Your // Yours // Yourself
Drag // Drag // Drag’s // Drag’s // Dragself
Third Person (Preffered use when referring to Dragon)
They // Them // Their // Theirs // Themself
He // Him // His // His // Himself
She // Her // Her // Hers // Herself
Drag // Drag // Drag’s // Drag’s // Dragself
This is not the same as every other neopronoun structure I have ever heard of.
It is inherently more confusing to most than even the standard neopronoun structure’s I’ve seen, because it replaces first and second person pronouns, which I’ve never seen any other neopronoun structure do.
I’ve never seen a neopronoun user throw away I Me My and prefer others not use You Yours Yourself when referring directly to them, but Dragon does.
To top it off, it is all even more confusing because the ‘pronouns’ are all the same across first second and third person.
Dragon says ‘drag’ is not a nickname… even though it is a concatenation of their name.
Only difference is that they don’t capitalize it in the middle of a sentence… but it reads as just constantly referring to yourself in the third person with a nickname.
…
… That’s a long way of saying that I’m not going to use Dragon’s ‘pronoun’ structure because it isn’t actually a pronoun structure.
It is a preference for a third person only refferent, made by a person who denies that that is what it is.
Can you show me any other neopronoun structure where the neopronouns include apostrophes?
Where the neopronouns are identical across first/second/third person?
Where the neopronouns sometimes demand modification of the verb tense accompanying them to 3rd person, regardless of the tense of the neopronoun?
I respect drag’s pronouns. Correct me if I’m wrong, but referring to drag with “they” is not right?
Not trying to pull a gotcha or anything, it just confuses me because I keep seeing comments defending drag’s pronouns while also using they/them.
I don’t use Dragon’s pronoun structure in my own speech because it is extremely confusing…as I attempted to explain.
‘They/them’ is significantly less confusing, and is widely accepted as a gender non-specific pronoun.
Sure, Dragon would likely prefer I use ‘Drag’ where I used ‘They’ but the whole problem here is that doing so is confusing.
So I am using the commonly accepted gender non determinative pronoun, which is understandable to everyone, or just avoid pronouns and use Dragon as their name… because the second part of their name has changed, and a lot of people know them by a different second part…
Anyway…
Dragon claims to use ‘drag’ as a ‘person independent pronoun’ in ‘first second and third person’ which is functionally indistinguishable from constantly referring to yourself in the third person with a nickname, and preferring that others refer to you with a custom pronoun in both second and third person.
Here’s my best attempt at constructing the whole pronoun chart.
Subj // Obj // Pssv Adj // Pssv Prn // Rflx
First Person (Used by Dragon):
Second Person (Preffered use when referring to Dragon):
Third Person (Preffered use when referring to Dragon)
This is not the same as every other neopronoun structure I have ever heard of.
It is inherently more confusing to most than even the standard neopronoun structure’s I’ve seen, because it replaces first and second person pronouns, which I’ve never seen any other neopronoun structure do.
I’ve never seen a neopronoun user throw away I Me My and prefer others not use You Yours Yourself when referring directly to them, but Dragon does.
To top it off, it is all even more confusing because the ‘pronouns’ are all the same across first second and third person.
Dragon says ‘drag’ is not a nickname… even though it is a concatenation of their name.
Only difference is that they don’t capitalize it in the middle of a sentence… but it reads as just constantly referring to yourself in the third person with a nickname.
…
… That’s a long way of saying that I’m not going to use Dragon’s ‘pronoun’ structure because it isn’t actually a pronoun structure.
It is a preference for a third person only refferent, made by a person who denies that that is what it is.
Can you show me any other neopronoun structure where the neopronouns include apostrophes?
Where the neopronouns are identical across first/second/third person?
Where the neopronouns sometimes demand modification of the verb tense accompanying them to 3rd person, regardless of the tense of the neopronoun?