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[–] SomeoneSomewhere 5 points 4 days ago

The whole point of pronouns, I would argue, is to not need a separate set for every instance.

Otherwise you may as well just use Dan/Dan/Dan's/Danself conjugated for each name.

Pronouns:

  • Are (generally) shorter than names, because there's less need for them to be unique and they're used more frequently.

  • Can be used even when you don't know specifics about a person or object, or they don't want to give out their name.

  • Everyone knows how to conjugate them, so once you know someone is a 'they', you can readily extrapolate to them, their, theirs.