I'm now really curious about what trans activists are doing about their pronoun policing mission in gendered languages where there's basically no way to insert zem/zer type neologisms even if people were willing to adopt them. You'd have to reinvent the whole grammar.
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are you familiar with the nuances of furry politics
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Not even remotely. Zero knowledge/curiosity about that whole subculture tbf
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Still a fan of expanding access to the masculine pronoun to all genders- gives the power and its easy/built in.
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in Slovenian they are championing using _ delineated amalgamation of masculine and feminine form. eg.: a "user" is
M: "uporabnik"
F: "uporabnica"
resulting in "uporabnik_ca"
Which one comes first is somewhat grammar dependent, but usually it's F.
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Was discussing how vernacular of social justice warrioring in it's least impactful form is basically competitive virtue grammar bee..
Just cz someone is made to say ze/zir, don't mean they aren't capable of acting out hate.
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In Spanish activists don't make a big deal about gendered pronouns, because they are still working on figuring out what to do with the actual nouns. Nouns are gendered in a way that encode lots of sexist assumptions.
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Language adapts. Language varies. It’s a dynamical adaptive systrm. A d id ’t it absolutely delicious to not know?
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I like the spanish use of @ at the end of the word as a/o ending, i.e. latin@
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There’s actually quite a bit of material on these topics - I’ve delved a little into Spanish and French, and bizarrely Swedish. First conclusion for me is that it’s not inherently more difficult second is if you don’t speak the language it’s best to listen before speaking
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