When Kinder combine into one god, despite having two souls, he/she becomes one entity. Using they, them, etc. as a third sex/third person singular gender neutral pronoun thus becomes misleading, implying to the reader that the one god with two souls is still two entities. Furthermore, using he/she, his/her, etc. is cumbersome. Many authors have made up pronouns to deal with this. I tried them out, and they all sounded jarring and distracting when read aloud. Some transgenders/gender neutral people have adopted: they, them, their, theirs, themselves; as third person singular gender neutral, and it sounds okay when read aloud.

Thus, what I have chosen to do is to give these words an alternate spelling when they are singular, for clarification purposes. Thus, in my books, the third sex/ third person singular gender neutral pronouns are: thay (s/he, he/she), thym (him/her), thayr (his/her), thayrs (his/hers), thymself (himself/herself).

These words can be thought of as Shatterish third-sex pronouns used as loan words for this book. This includes all types of third sex humanoids: androgynous, hermaphroditic, transgender, asexual, sexless, etc.

This works great with everything but the verbs "is" and "are". APA style suggests writing "they are" and not "they is"* so I will follow this and write thay are, because it sounds better, even if the grammar is wrong. This is how grammar exceptions are born.



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