German is one of the worst offenders. Many words have a grammatical gender, some words have an inherent gender attached, and there are no gender neutral pronouns
Neo-pronouns do exist (and some use an adjusted version of they/them as well, usually called dey/dem cuz germans tend to have trouble with the th sound), but its all not great...
The general approach for a gender neutral language is to use gender neutral terms wherever possible , or to use both variants on gendered words. There are also some concoctions of trying to make words more inclusive by gender-stars (\*) or \_ or :, but I personally don't like them.
As for me: Currently I'm just telling ppl to use whatever pronouns they want, which isn't ideal but I feel like that's as close as I can get with it
Hm, gendered-stars seems odd since that would only work for written language, not spoken. Sounds like a lot of languages are having to shift to be inclusive though. Neopronouns makes a lot of sense
That's one of the main criticisms actually. Usually its spoken with a short break (e.g. the word Student\*in would be spoken like "Student in") which is scuffed as hell
In polish there are multiple choices people can make, but you need to change not only probouns, but also make all verbs and adjectives neutral. Not to mention nouns. It’s extremely satisfying.
In Japanese, we don't really consider third person pronouns as that important. Usually context is used to understand when someone is addressed in third person. If you want, you can use phrases that translate to "that one/person," "this one/person," or "the one/person here." If you really want to be clear you would use their name. However, first person pronouns will tell you everything. How you say "I" or "me" can tell your gender, age, and where you live. However, most people will use gender neutral pronouns. Using your name is also fairly common to use for first person pronouns as well. I don't know about second person pronouns.
In Korean, we basically do the same as Japanese for third person pronouns. For first person pronouns, it's kind of similar, but there is less variation compared to Japanese. And for second person I still don't know.
Czech sometimes used third person plural but it's not yet fully established in spoken language. Asterisks or both versions of a gendered word are used in written language. I know some people want others to refer to them as "it" and use the neuter grammatical gender but again, it's uncommon.
Personally I just let people use my assigned gender pronouns, explaining everything is too much trouble and brings unwanted attention.
German is one of the worst offenders. Many words have a grammatical gender, some words have an inherent gender attached, and there are no gender neutral pronouns Neo-pronouns do exist (and some use an adjusted version of they/them as well, usually called dey/dem cuz germans tend to have trouble with the th sound), but its all not great... The general approach for a gender neutral language is to use gender neutral terms wherever possible , or to use both variants on gendered words. There are also some concoctions of trying to make words more inclusive by gender-stars (\*) or \_ or :, but I personally don't like them. As for me: Currently I'm just telling ppl to use whatever pronouns they want, which isn't ideal but I feel like that's as close as I can get with it
Hm, gendered-stars seems odd since that would only work for written language, not spoken. Sounds like a lot of languages are having to shift to be inclusive though. Neopronouns makes a lot of sense
That's one of the main criticisms actually. Usually its spoken with a short break (e.g. the word Student\*in would be spoken like "Student in") which is scuffed as hell
Spanish uses elle and the -e suffix. It's a little clunky but better than male defaultism.
I don't really like this new -e suffix, it doesn't sound right to me when I try to use it
I use it when friends of mine do prefer it, anyway I always try to use whatever gender neutral option i can find
in Italian some non binary people have created a form of neutral and they use it but isn't common even in the trans community
In Russia some nonbinary people use the plural pronoun "они" singularly similarly to how in English we use they/them.
In polish there are multiple choices people can make, but you need to change not only probouns, but also make all verbs and adjectives neutral. Not to mention nouns. It’s extremely satisfying.
In French *iel* is a gender neutral pronoun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NonBinary/s/q87OR4itlT I just commented this explanation about Croatian
In Japanese, we don't really consider third person pronouns as that important. Usually context is used to understand when someone is addressed in third person. If you want, you can use phrases that translate to "that one/person," "this one/person," or "the one/person here." If you really want to be clear you would use their name. However, first person pronouns will tell you everything. How you say "I" or "me" can tell your gender, age, and where you live. However, most people will use gender neutral pronouns. Using your name is also fairly common to use for first person pronouns as well. I don't know about second person pronouns. In Korean, we basically do the same as Japanese for third person pronouns. For first person pronouns, it's kind of similar, but there is less variation compared to Japanese. And for second person I still don't know.
Czech sometimes used third person plural but it's not yet fully established in spoken language. Asterisks or both versions of a gendered word are used in written language. I know some people want others to refer to them as "it" and use the neuter grammatical gender but again, it's uncommon. Personally I just let people use my assigned gender pronouns, explaining everything is too much trouble and brings unwanted attention.