Is it rude to use They and not made up pronoun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's totally obnoxious but you'll get labeled a zoomer

Hey that's my pronoun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A coworker of my DDs uses a pronoun that’s not he, she, or they (I have never met the person, and can’t remember what my DD said the pronoun was) but the coworker doesn’t want to be called “they” even as part of a group. So if DD wants to refer to a group of coworkers, she can’t say “they went on break at 5pm” even if she’s talking about 5 different people. She’s never used the wrong pronoun to refer to the individual, but has tripped up a couple times in the group they. To me this seems harder to overcome than the individual pronouns.

It’s an insane level of narcissism to dictate the word used to describe you when you’re not even there.

Insane even when they're there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, is “blaccent” an accepted commonly used word?

It's been in mainstream media for years:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/04/how-a-white-australian-rapper-mastered-her-blaccent

https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/the-blaccent-that-defines-chicago/

[Anonymous]

All of the pronouns were made up at some point. I think the polite thing is to try to call people what they prefer, though it’s normal to slip up now and then. It costs you nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IMO the level of groupthink required for people to be deemed "supportive" these days around this issue is just ridiculous. And I'm a liberal. For those of us who treasure correct language using a plural to denote a singular person is absurd and wrong and really grates on the ears. It is a weird perversion of a minority rule situation to force the vast majority of people to entirely switch some of themes common usage in the language to support their identity issues. I would rather support the coining of a new gender-neutral new pronoun (similar to the coining of "Ms." in the 1970s) that we all agree to use.

This of us who value correct language usage understand that “they” has been accepted to refer to a singular person for a long time and that language changes over time.