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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Pronouns are the easy part. Imagine that every verb is pronounced differently depending on the gender of the speaker or reference, and there are no neutral forms. You have to come up with an entirely new sublanguage just to add a "they" equivalent.
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Yup, Hindi would be near impossible due to gendered verbs. You'd have to invent and incept a whole new verb ending across the language. It would be like 10x the engineering effort of y2k. But I wouldn't tag it impossible... languages have made bigger evolutionary leaps in history


