någotsomeone

Någotsomeone is a coined term used in speculative linguistics and creative writing to describe a person who simultaneously embodies or functions as both a thing and a person. It is employed to discuss blurred social boundaries where agency, subjectivity, and objectification overlap.

Etymology: The term blends något, the Swedish word for something, with the English word someone. It is used as a deliberate cross-linguistic neologism to highlight ambiguity in labeling people that are treated as objects or categories rather than fully recognized agents.

Usage: In discussions of identity, digital personas, and performativity, någotsomeone may describe a character or real person who defies straightforward categorization, or a discourse that treats a person as an object in certain contexts. The term is useful in thought experiments about how people can be simultaneously subject and object within social or narrative structures.

Criticism: The term is not widely recognized in formal scholarship; it appears primarily in online glossaries, speculative essays, or creative works. It serves as a thought-experiment to prompt reflection on agency and objecthood, rather than as a standard category in social theory.

See also related concepts: objectification, hybridity, performativity, identity, ontology.