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Q&A Pronouns when writing from the point of view of a robot

Building from @Jontia's, Personally, while I'm comfortable with she/her (and I'm also not a robot), I always like the X or Z options, and I had hoped they would catch on with people who wanted an ...

posted 5y ago by April Salutes Monica C.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2020-02-10T14:22:57Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:39:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T12:39:03Z (almost 5 years ago)
Building from @Jontia's,

Personally, while I'm comfortable with she/her (and I'm also not a robot), I always like the X or Z options, and I had hoped they would catch on with people who wanted an alternative. -- my nonbinary friends aren't fans, alas.

But **Zi/Zin may work well for a robot** -- more personal than "it," but distinct from he/she.

> Robot Q3E sighed. Ze wasn't a happy robot because zar owner had been disappointed in zin due to zar increasing independence.

He/him/his in this became ze/zin/zar.

(I didn't see a possessive, so "zar" felt right to me. Others use the objective pronoun also as the possive, just like "She took _her_ historic punch card. Robots then avoided _her_." -- once as the possessive pronoun, once as the objective (object of a sentence).)

See more potential ones here: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List\_of\_protologisms/third\_person\_singular\_gender\_neutral\_pronouns](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_protologisms/third_person_singular_gender_neutral_pronouns)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-07T14:58:29Z (about 5 years ago)
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