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Thu 25 Aug, 2022 07:15 pm
Question to anyone else reading stories with characters using they/them pronouns. Am I the only one confused when reading books with scenes involving multiple characters, yet the ambiguous use of they/them - could mean individuals' actions but could be confused with more than one character in a scene...?
I've only encountered this in the first two novellas of a scifi trilogy, Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers. The individual in question is an ungendered human, Sibling Dex.
Have you encountered characters who use the individual pronoun of they/them?
@tsarstepan,
I ran into the same thing in the
Murderbot series (which I highly recommend). It's a little confusing at first for someone like me who is more set in my grammatical ways, but not to the point that it put me off the books.
@engineer,
It's a great series. I don't remember that detail. Assuming you mean the protagonist AKA the Murderbot itself. I wonder if they (the publishers) made the pronoun change in the audiobook edition or I'm just misremembering it.
I'm hoping for more from that series.
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