Need more pronouns added please.
2 years ago
Phoenix, AZ, USA

Can we add Us?

We would really appreciate it.

Thanks.

French Southern Territories

why are "us" pronouns needed?

United States

I think its a DID thing where people refer to themselves as a collection of their identities, using plural pronouns (We/Us).

United States

That's what I'm assuming as well, though it'd be the first I heard of it.

United States
US
They/Them
2 years ago

Us?

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European Union

Referring to an individual as we/us is just straight up incorrect english.

I do think the whole pronouns system should be scraped though. Just give us a text box where we can enter a status like on discord or something. It gives users more freedom and you can put pronouns in it if you want.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

honestly this goes full circle now.

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Australia

@1 Except, they're not an individual, they are multiple people in one body (presumably) I am not an expert on the topic btw

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Japan

[quote] they're not an individual, they are multiple people in one body (presumably) [/quote] Conjoined twins? đź‘€

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Israel

This is one thing to refer to yourself as "we", but another thing entirely to refer to someone else as "we".

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Australia

you're right there tbh.

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United States

Yeah, in this case, They/Them still seems accurate.

Victoria, Australia
discranola
He/Him, It/Its
2 years ago

@Oreo321 Unless you're in a hivemind, of course.

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French Southern Territories

[quote]@Merl_ because the gates were opened to pronouns, so now they must add more. [/quote]

i understand wanting neopronouns added but we/us? you can't refer to someone else as "we" as stated before, that isn't proper english

the correct pronouns to refer to multiple people is "they/them"

Edited by the author 2 years ago
United States

Found a helpful Reddit thread with much the same conclusion—while one can't directly use we/us/ours in place of other terms because of grammar, it's more of an indication of using plural pronouns (they/them or even y'all), which has to be specified further. Clearly, using "we/us" to describe which pronouns to use is raising more questions than it's answering...

The only real possibility of signifying all this is custom pronoun entry, which covers these (important!) edge cases.

Phoenix, AZ, USA

We are Legion and would like you to accommodate us. Everyone will not understand but that is OK.

Also identity doesn't need to conform to the rules of grammar. It has everything to do with emotion and nothing to do with logic. This is why we are asking for the addition.

Thank you.

European Union

[QUOTE=RetroPacman] Also identity doesn't need to conform to the rules of grammar. [/QUOTE] If you're going to speak english and have people talk to you in english things are going to need to follow the rules of the language. Identity is not a word, it is a concept. When someone says "we" in english that means including the speaker. If you want to talk about a group of multiple people without including the speaker a more appropriate term is "they" or "you" or something. The word itself doesn't mean anything in regards to identify, its just how we communicate it, and communicating it with "we" is incorrect.

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Iowa, USA

I would understand We/Us as a pronoun if someone has multiple personalities consisting of he/him, she/her, or they/them.

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