Really Weird Question

[queerbychoice]

If you were inventing your own language with its own pronoun system that didn't have to be gender-segregated, but for some reason (umm . . . an evil language tyrant ordered you!) you had to divide people into some kind of categories and assign different pronouns to each category . . . what categories would be the most important in your mind for you to distinguish between? They could be categories based on mental rather than physical attributes, or chosen rather than inborn characteristics . . . they could be categories based on anything you want.

I was contemplating writing a language parody, and trying to think of a pronoun-distinction that I could really believe in. In reality I don't really want any pronoun-distinctions, but the point would have been to show how silly all pronoun distinctions are by substituting one that theoretically should seem more meaningful than gender, yet in reality would just seem sillier because we're all so used to the gender one. But anyway, the question got me interested in how differently different people value different methods of categorizing people, and I suddenly wanted to survey all of you.

Comments

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

The way I was picturing it, nobody gets any say in this. I certainly never told anyone to call me "she", they just do based on their assumptions.
First person pronouns, it should be noted, never tell you anything about the person, nor second. Only third.

So the idea is, if think for whatever reason that you have no class, I will say "Queerchoice was hungry, so low (for lower class) made dinner." And you can be offended as you want, but it makes no difference. And someone else might have a different impression of you, so might refer to you as "up" or "mid" or "umid" or "lowm" or whatever.