pronoun.is is a website for personal pronoun usage examples
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. 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)
The pronouns "database" is a tab-delimited file located in resources/pronouns.tab with fields and example values as follows:
| subject | object | possessive-determiner | possessive-pronoun | reflexive |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| they | them | their | theirs | themselves |
The top 6 pronouns are displayed on the front page. Please don't edit these without talking to me, they've been hand-curated based on usage frequency. Below the top 6, the remaining pronouns are sorted in alphabetical order by subject and then in roughly frequency order for sets that have the same subject pronoun. If you're adding a set that shares the same object pronoun as other set(s) already in the database, please insert it immediately below those ones.
If you edit the database 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 . In Vi you can use Ctrl+v .
The top-level logic for running the server lives in pronouns.web
Page rendering markup is in pronouns.pages, it uses
hiccup for rendering HTML from Clojure
datastructures.
pronouns.config is currently used only for loading
the pronouns database
The unfortunately-named pronouns.util includes both
actual utility functions used elsewhere in the code, but also what you might
think of as "controllers" if you're used to the MVC model of web design - code
that does the computations necessary for the pages (analogous to "views")
to render themselves. We should probably break up util into (at least) two
namespaces and be a little more deliberate about where everything currently
in that namespace should live!
Run the suite with lein test
Test coverage is not great but getting better. Please run the tests and confirm that everything passes before merging changes, and please include tests with any new logic you introduce in a PR!
Goals for the future include setting up automated CI to run the tests for us on every PR branch
First, install leiningen. 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 -
with the unfortunate exception of pronouns.tab, which is loaded as a resource
and requires an app restart to reload.
For most of this project's history we had separate master and develop
branches but that's proven to be more trouble than it's worth. Going
forward we'll be doing all development in feature branches off of master,
and PRs should be issued against master.
Please follow this guide for writing good commit messages :)
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! However, as a policy we will not include such entries in the database.
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