Post 306981 by ElusiveConfection@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #306869 by em@cybre.space
       2018-09-30T22:34:55Z
       
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       hey i'm really curious about gender-neutral pronouns in different languages. english has "they", plus a bunch of different neopronouns. what do you use in your language?(boosts would be great to cast a wider net on this, thx)
       
 (DIR) Post #306979 by jimpjorps@knzk.me
       2018-09-30T23:19:52Z
       
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       @em there's a few proposals for Spanish: l@s niñ@s, lⒶs niñⒶs, lxs niñxs and les niñes are all proposed alternatives with varying amounts of support; Japanese has no grammatical gender, so there the issue is more with gendered speech patterns than specific words
       
 (DIR) Post #306980 by em@cybre.space
       2018-09-30T23:21:21Z
       
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       @jimpjorps hm ok, i think i've seen those written (at least l@s and lxs) how would they be pronounced though?
       
 (DIR) Post #306981 by ElusiveConfection@octodon.social
       2018-09-30T23:22:42Z
       
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       @em @jimpjorps ive heard it would be better to use an "e" over a "x"
       
 (DIR) Post #306982 by v0idifier@social.linux.pizza
       2018-10-01T01:28:24Z
       
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       @ElusiveConfection @em @jimpjorps although a lot of people in Argentina thinks its dumb and just laughs at the people who use it
       
 (DIR) Post #306983 by orekix@pl.smuglo.li
       2018-10-01T01:34:17.480721Z
       
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       @v0idifier @jimpjorps @em @ElusiveConfection none of those work in Spanish, nearly everyone is rejecting adding symbols or replacing vowels with an 'x', even things such as saying "todos y todas" is frowned upon because it is understood that saying "todos" already implies the inclusion of female groups unless otherwise stated in the context
       
 (DIR) Post #306999 by orekix@pl.smuglo.li
       2018-10-01T01:38:35.767179Z
       
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       @v0idifier @jimpjorps @em @ElusiveConfection And this isn't about not allowing transgender people to form part of societies, they're free to do so and Hispanic countries are already making progress towards giving them rights but bastardizing the language in such ways is always going to be frowned upon, you want to be part of everyone else so what's the point of special treatment in the language?https://twitter.com/RAEinforma/status/1036599499853053952https://twitter.com/RAEinforma/status/1008702383575261184
       
 (DIR) Post #307013 by jimpjorps@knzk.me
       2018-10-01T01:38:19Z
       
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       @orekix @v0idifier @em @ElusiveConfection that assumption that male = default is part of the problem that people want to fix
       
 (DIR) Post #307014 by orekix@pl.smuglo.li
       2018-10-01T01:42:25.298694Z
       
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       @jimpjorps @ElusiveConfection @em @v0idifier that is simply a non-issue