Specifically, it's a pronoun used by the stsho, a tri-sexed race in C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series. I suggested it to oneironaut a year or so ago when gtst was complaining about pronoun availability and usage, in part because where the characteristics of stsho aren't perfectly accurate they're wrong in the exactly correct direction to be utterly hilarious.
Think of it as a slightly less pronounceable version of 'zie'.
I refuse to be referred to as 'it' -- in my idiolect to refer to a sophont as 'it' is to imply that ... it ... is a hypothetical or otherwise abstract entity, as in this case, or that it's not really a sophont; 'it' is the pronoun of toasters -- and most of the gender-neutral pronouns grafted on to English just sound unnatural to me. 'Gtst' does too, but it sounds so over-the-top bizarre that it doesn't bother me -- it's not even trying to pass for English, so it causes no dissonance.
Plus, funny connotations. I live for funny connotations.
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What does "gtst" mean?
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Specifically, it's a pronoun used by the stsho, a tri-sexed race in C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series. I suggested it to
Think of it as a slightly less pronounceable version of 'zie'.
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And yes, is rather less than pronounceable.
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Plus, funny connotations. I live for funny connotations.
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