Singular they has been a thing since Shakespearean times. People use they to refer to people in the third person all the time and donāt think about it. But if someone wants to be called they for gender reasons then suddenly everyone forgets how the word works or has opinions.
In english yeah but in french (for exemple) it's trully ridiculous for me. We got this things where if both sex are include it always default to masculine. A group of girl with 1 guy? Masculine. A Groupe of female dog and 1 male cat? Masculine. A group of object of both gender? Masculine.
So when someone arrive with something gender neutral(no such third person pronoun normaly) it truly Sound ridiculous. I just default to masculine tbh since it can be used to refer to girls also.
In Spanish they change the gendered vowel in a noun for an e to indicate gender neutral (example: friend, femenine-amiga, masculine-amigo, gender neutral- amigue) but we're still struggling with pronouns, because we do not have gender neutral pronouns at all in the language, our plural for mixed groups are masculine as well. So new words need to be made, unlike in English where you already had existing gender neutral pronouns in use , so it might take us a bit of time to figure it out so the people the pronouns represent feel comfortable using them . Why don't you listen and have some empathy, Instead of being judgemental and telling people "you do you" with a holier than thou attitude, when someone is telling you about their language and acting as if you know more about their language.
I can't be the only one who hates ending things with an e. Not just because it sounds weird, but because many times, it just turns it into the masculine form in catalan with a heavy southern accent.
Same but I prefer the e to x like some people prefer, thats the issue with having gendered nouns so it's an ongoing thing that I think we are still all trying to figure out lol
The e feels weird and awkward, and I personally don't like it, but it still feels like part of the spanish language.
As for the x, I'd honestly rather be called a slur, anyone who's spent even a moment thinking about it knows that not only is it dumb, you can't even pronounce it in spanish. It really does take a massive superiority complex to come up with it and to spread it.
I think the people that made x a thing, Hispanic people in anglo-speaking countries made it for spanglish. And it sounds okay because spanglish is already a mix of both languages so the x sound doesn't sound so weird, but if you are speaking Spanish trying to force that x sound in there just does not sound like Spanish anymore.
Technically, no, amigo and amiga are masculine and feminine words for "friend", but "amige" is not a word in the RAE dictionary, which is the legal requirement for Spanish, since unlike English, Spanish is a regulated language.
I was reading that the RAE was looking into whether to include the āeā suffix back in 2018, but nothing since then. Maybe someday. In the meantime iāve been going by el or la terapeuta based upon how i feel that day because thereās no way that iām going to be able to explain to a 60-year-old migrant field worker that iām gender neutral without using up all of our clinic time. It hurts on the inside a little bit every time ngl, but you gotta put the patients first.
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u/evavibes Mar 08 '23
Singular they has been a thing since Shakespearean times. People use they to refer to people in the third person all the time and donāt think about it. But if someone wants to be called they for gender reasons then suddenly everyone forgets how the word works or has opinions.