Time Magazine is always bringing you the latest in news, politics, fashion and, uh, pronouns that have been chopped in half:
"Ey," eh?
That's a new one.
They're putting The Babylon Bee out of business, folks!
This new pronoun format does seem to have been, as the linguists say, "regularized":
In the 2019 illustrated graphic memoir, Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, explores eir process of coming out as nonbinary and asexual.
So apparently the goal here is just to remove the th- form, essentially reverting to a kind of jackleg Proto-Germanic appearance — sort of. I don't know. I doubt Time Magazine has thought all that much about it, and to be honest I doubt Miss Kobabe has either.
It's a strange new world e live in, yes indeed!
By the way, this author that Time Magazine is featuring wrote a book with graphic sexual images and descriptions that are so inappropriate that school boards won't let parents read it, despite the fact that many 12-year-olds have access to this stuff at their school library.
Here's an article we wrote from March:
Here's about as PG-13 as it gets:
[Content Warning]
Only in clown world does an author who wants kids to read graphic sex books about "non-binary" sexual exploration get an article from one of the world's biggest magazines!
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