A new gender-neutral pronoun?!

A friend forwarded this link to me for an article about a new use for the word 'yo.' After reading it I wondered whether this new usage would be considered polysemous to the previous 'accepted' usages, or if it's tantamount to creating an entirely new meaning for the word or creating a homonym. Its previous usage has been either as an interjection or, as I have heard and used it, as pronoun of a sort used in places where 'dude' and 'man' have been used.

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jtmastin
I suggest the gender neutral third person pronoun be 'p', because the rime of the syllable matches the established male and female pronouns, and it reminds me of the Diggable Planets song "Friends of P".

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