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Oh so now I have to remember to use a whole NEW set of pronouns? What's next, memorizing everyone's individual name out the billions of possible names???
⧖ @Lana English speaking bigots are such snowflakes. In French, German and many other languages you have to learn the gender of things that don’t even have genitals and if you get it wrong everyone knows you’re a foreigner, coming there and misgendering their nouns.
@christineburns And then they try to trick you. The Spanish are like: "You think days are female? Hah! They're male!"
@eagerpebble But in German young girls are non-binary and that’s the law
@cachondo @Lana @christineburns Amused. Let's ad in the complexity of kinship terms too. For example, take a look at Vietnamese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_pronouns#Kinship_terms
@Lana Next you're gonna tell me artists use names other than their real names.
Like Ice Cube ain't their real name. Or Elton John was really born Dwight.
I gotta sort that out, AND pronouns? What kind of hippy hell is this!?
(all tongue in cheek of course)
@Lana
Kindly excuse me for asking this. I’m curious and do not grasp the concept of individual pronouns and I would like to get it.
if the link between a unique pronoun and the unique name is arbitrary and not referring to an outer appearance or gendered name,
1) why would I use the pronoun instead? It just adds complexity w/o any advantage.
2) when writing. How do I refer to people I do not know and hence cannot derive the right pronoun?
@Lana
3) When reading. How do I grasp the added ambiguity if there is no clue whose pronoun it is?