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Respecting other people's pronouns and identity doesn't require much effort.
Even if you're a person that's solving the biggest challenges that humanity is facing,
you can easily manage to not be transphobic in the process.
why-two-forms:
question: 'Why are pronouns usually given as two forms, like “she/her”, instead of just saying “she” or instead of listing all the forms?'
answer:
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In English there are five forms of gendered personal pronouns, so if we wanted to be precise,
we'd need to list all of them, for example: “they/them/their/theirs/themselves” or “he/him/his/his/himself”.
That's already <em>a lot</em> to put in your bio or introduce yourself with, and some languages require way more info than that
(eg. in Polish {https://zaimki.pl/jak-dzia%C5%82aj%C4%85-zaimki=there are up to 12 forms of gendered personal pronouns alone},
plus different endings of nouns, adjectives and verbs).
But usually not all of that information is necessary in those situations,
the whole pronoun set could be easily “compressed” to just a “she” or “he” or “xe”, etc.
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On the other hand though, reducing it to just one form won't have the advantage of adding extra context.
If a person sees just a “ve” in someone's bio and they're not familiar with the neopronoun “{/ve=ve/ver}”,
they will struggle to understand the meaning of that random “ve”.
But it became pretty much a standard convention that “xxx/yyy” means a pronoun set –
so there's a big chance that upon seeing “ve/ver” they'll know immediately that those are the person's pronouns.
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Adding a second (or sometimes third) form also clears up some ambiguities,
eg. between {/ze/hir=ze/hir} and {/ze/zir=ze/zir} or between {/e/em/eir=e/em/eir} and {/e/em/es=e/em/es}.
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Basically, the two-forms convention is a compromise between keeping it brief
and making it very obvious that a given string of characters is a pronoun set,
and it also keeps things unambiguous.
This convention became so popular that it made its way into other languages
(although not strictly, for example in Portuguese people usually give three forms)
and we even incorporated the <code>( / )</code> into {/logo=our logo}.
flags:
question: 'Can you add this flag? Can you remove that flag?'
answer: