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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk

      Like Japanese doesn't have the equivalent of "he vs she", all pronouns are gender neutral (except recent ones invented specifically to translate "he/she" from Western texts) The "gendered first-person pronouns" people like to talk about are technically registers of politeness

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk

      So it's a second-order thing, "watashi" is a "feminine" word for "I" because it's *polite*, and women are expected to be polite to a greater degree than men A man calling himself "watashi" isn't acting girly so much as he is acting formal and deferential

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    3. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      A man calling himself “atashi” on the other hand is likely to be seen as acting effeminate.

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl

      Yeah I think I've talked about this before, "secondary gender markers", or maybe tertiary ones Like in English we don't have anything as codified even as the watashi/boku/ore thing but a man will get funny looks for "talking like a girl" in certain ways

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl

      That Reductress article, "Man strikes blow for gender equality by ending every sentence with 'If that makes sense?'"

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    6. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      Hmmm, yeah, I guess men are a lot more likely to say “If you know what I mean?” Or something like that.

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl

      More importantly, men tend to end their sentences with a softening question much less often because they're supposed to signal confidence rather than deference

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    8. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      Hmmm. Yes, almost certainly true in general. Though it does vary by domain. I find engineers and scientists do it a lot more than businessmen, possibly because we spend a lot more time explaining things to each other.

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    9. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      I have one friend who almost ends every other sentence that way, it’s a notable quirk. But he’s a teacher.

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    10. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      Maybe also an American vs. British cultural thing? I think politeness and courtesy (and the lack thereof) have a different type of cultural importance here.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 20 Aug 2020
      Replying to @bazzalisk @BootlegGirl

      Yeah, American bluntness as a macho thing, maybe The thing in Shin Godzilla where the American lady says she's going to speak without honorifics because in America everyone is social equals

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        1. Bazzalisk 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🐝‏ @bazzalisk 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

          Which is, of course, bollocks. But pretending that it’s true is a very American thing.

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        2. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk

          “I know this language has t/v distinction but I just think that doesn’t fit my American aesthetic so I’m going to drop the gross formal one :)”

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        3. Cyrus @ vax adventures, or advaxtures‏ @chrysopoetics 20 Aug 2020
          Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and

          (I think this might genuinely be the thing I despise most about interacting with Americans who have a Romance language, even with “and then they all make the same two or three jokes about nouns having gendere” in the running.)

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