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[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 25 points 1 week ago

Non-binary gender markers please.

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 week ago

Would be great if we could figure out how to do non-binary or non-gendered speech in Ukrainian. Grammatical gender is a pain in the ass.

[-] eurodyne@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this really a shortcoming of the Ukrainian language?

TIL

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Slavic languages have grammatical gender. It's not like in German or French with the articles, but the endings of adjectives and past tense verbs change to agree with nouns and pronouns.

[-] Quokka@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago
[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really have no idea what that would look and sound like. We have a neuter gender, but it's not really fitting to talk about people (like using "it" in English). I think we do need a new gender neutral suffix, yes, but I'm not qualified enough to make an attempt at devising one.

Or maybe we could just start using plural, like "they" in English. It would sound odd, but not as odd as a brand new type of ending.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Don't they have a neutral gender?

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

Neuter, not neutral. Like "it" in English or "das" article in German. Not really a good fit to talk about people.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Its a misconception that it only applies to objects

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

"Not only applicable to objects" doesn't automatically mean "applicable to people", believe it or not

[-] Burstar@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

trans people can legally change the gender markers on their documents.

I'd be surprised if 'x' isn't one of the options

[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Last I checked it wasn’t an option yet. We must respect the non-binary defenders.

[-] owceowce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Isnt that Q letter described what you asking for?

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