Herself vs Perself - What's the difference?
herself | perself | Hyponyms |
(reflexive) Her;
* , chapter=17
, title= (emphatic) She;
(slang) A self-important female.
(neologism, reflexive) per, themself;
* 1996 February 22, "Susan Groppi" (username), "These messages make me so sad...", in alt.adoption, Usenet :
* 1996 December 6, "Suki L. McDonough" (username), "What's Up?", in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi, Usenet :
* 1997 April 22, "Anthony and Joy Hilbert" (username), "ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
Perself is a hyponym of herself.
As pronouns the difference between herself and perself
is that herself is her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.perself is per, themself; Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.herself
English
Pronoun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
See also
(English personal pronouns)Statistics
*perself
English
Pronoun
(head)- Per injured perself .
- I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.
- My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).
- The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.