A sci-fi grammar escaped the novelSourced
Invented for a science-fiction book.
Adopted in real life.
Polish writer Jacek Dukaj devised gender-neutral grammatical forms for a 2004 science-fiction novel. Some nonbinary Polish speakers later began using forms based on them outside the book.
A fictional language device
found real speakers.
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