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[–] -5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Well, how would you even know they're aren't pronouns?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    "Ae" is actually one of the oldest coined non-binary pronouns, originating in the 1920 science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus, where it was used to describe members of an alien race. Its oblique and possessive determiner forms are both "aer", a pun on the alien race being composed of air.

    The only result of "vs" I could find in a database of coined pronouns is as a possessive form of "v", which I'm unsure if has any attestations. However, v/vs could be taken as a spelling or inflectional variant of ve/vis, which was first proposed as a gender-neutral pronoun all the way back in 1864.

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