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**[pronoun.is](https://pronoun.is) is a website for personal pronoun usage examples**
## For users
You can use any pronouns you like simply by filling them into the
url path. For example, https://pronoun.is/ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself
That's pretty unwieldy! Fortunately you can also give it only the
first pronoun or two: https://pronoun.is/she/her or https://pronoun.is/they
Automatically filling in the rest from only one or two forms only
works for pronouns in the [database][pronoun-database]. If the
pronouns you or a friend uses aren't supported, please let us know and
we'll add them. Alternatively you could add them yourself and submit a
pull request (see the next section for details)
## For developers
### The database
The pronouns "database" is a tab-delimited file located in [resources/pronouns.tab][pronoun-database] with fields and example values as follows:
subject|object|possessive-determiner|possessive-pronoun|reflexive
-------|------|---------------------|------------------|---------
they | them | their | theirs | themselves
If you edit it with a text editor, make sure your editor inputs real
tab characters in that file (a thing your editor might normally be
configured not to do!) In Emacs, you can input real tabs by doing
Ctrl+q <tab>. In Vi you can use Ctrl+v <tab>.
[pronoun-database]: resources/pronouns.tab
### Running the app in a dev environment
First, install [leiningen](https://leiningen.org/). Then you can launch the app
on your own computer by running the following command:
```
$ lein ring server
```
This will launch a server running the app and open your default web browser to the index page. The server will automatically reload files as you edit them.
## Philosophy on pronoun inclusion
Pronoun.is aims foremost and exclusively to be a useful resource for people to communicate the personal pronoun they use for themselves.
It is possible to use these example sentences to demonstrate the usage of words that are not personal pronouns, or even cleverly insert an [entire story](https://pronoun.is/she/or%20they,%20those%20ships%20who%20were%20docked%20and%20still%20equipped%20with%20ancillaries,%20arranged%20to%20share%20the%20duty%20of%20monitoring%20our%20guest%20as%20it%20fit%20into%20their%20routines;%20that%20was%20the%20agreement,%20despite%20it%20being%20less%20convenient%20for%20me%20to%20participate%20at%20all,%20on%20the%20grounds%20that%20certain%20visitors%20might%20prefer%20a%20constant%20individual%20companion%20to%20what%20might%20seem,%20depending%20on%20their%20past%20experiences,%20to%20be%20undue%20attention%20from%20every%20soldier%20they%20passed.%20As%20usual,%20then,%20I%20took%20the%20first%20shift/the%20one%20possession%20of%20hers%20that%20Station%20Security%20hadn't%20confiscated,%20a/knowingly%20left%20with%20her.%20What%20a%20Presger%20frisbee%20might%20do%20or%20even%20look%20like%20I%20couldn't%20say.%20She%20hadn't%20seemed%20the%20sort%20to%20have%20alien%20technology,%20but,%20then%20again,%20neither%20had%20I/another%20unremarkable%20stranger,%20quite%20a%20ways%20down%20the%20concourse,%20who%20caught%20it%20with%20a%20degree%20of%20coordination%20that%20most%20would%20have%20overlooked.%20It%20did%20not%20escape%20my%20notice,%20however.%20"Cousin,"%20I%20said,%20enough%20to%20convey%20-%20unless%20our%20visitor%20were%20quite%20ignorant,%20but,%20of%20course,%20at%20this%20point%20I%20was%20certain%20that%20she%20couldn't%20be%20-%20both%20that%20I%20knew%20what%20she%20was%20not%20and%20that%20I%20was%20giving%20her%20the%20benefit%20of%20the%20doubt%20as%20to%20what,%20or%20who,%20she%20was)! However, as a policy we will not include such entries in the database.
## License
Copyright © 2014-2017 Morgan Astra <m@morganastra.me>
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
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