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# [pronoun.is](http://pronoun.is) is a www site for showing people how to use pronouns
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## For users
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You can use any pronouns you like simply by filling them into the
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url path. For example, http://pronoun.is/ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself
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That's pretty unwieldy! Fortunately you can also give it only the
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first pronoun or two: http://pronoun.is/she/her or http://pronoun.is/they
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Automatically filling in the rest from only one or two forms only
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works for pronouns in the [database](resources/pronouns.tab). If the
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pronouns you or a friend uses aren't supported, please let us know and
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we'll add them. Alternatively you could add them yourself and submit a
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pull request (see the next section for details)
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## For developers
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### The database
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The pronouns "database" is a tab-delimited file with fields and
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example values as follows:
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subject|object|possessive-determiner|possessive-pronoun|reflexive
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-------|------|---------------------|------------------|---------
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they | them | their | theirs | themselves
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If you edit it with a text editor, make sure your editor inputs real
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tab characters in that file (a thing your editor might normally be
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configured not to do!) In Emacs, you can input real tabs by doing
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Ctrl+q <tab>
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### Running the app in a dev environment
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You can launch the app on your own computer by running the following
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command:
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```
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$ lein ring server
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```
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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.
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## Philosophy on pronoun inclusion
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Pronoun.is aims foremost and exclusively to be a useful resource for people to communicate the personal pronoun they use for themselves.
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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](http://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.
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## License
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Copyright © 2014-2016 Morgan Astra <m@morganastra.me>
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