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Or I invent entirely new sentence structures just to avoid gendering myself
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Lena gregtech.eu lena@gregtech.eu
Joined: 2025-01-19
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riwo lemmy.blahaj.zone riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-04
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i'm confuse

cans u explain more?👉👈

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craftrabbit lemmy.zip craftrabbit@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-04
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Oh god, holy shit, yes. I have made up so many new words just for this.

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birdwing lemmy.blahaj.zone birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-08-19
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i'm confuse cans u explain more?👉👈

Some languages have gendered conjugations, I think Slavic tongues do that.

Other ones simply don't have a default neutral pronoun, so to say.

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Rei lemmy.blahaj.zone Rei@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2024-02-05
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Oh, I did that for a bit before coming out fully. I got really good at making it sound normal. Then it took a months to shift back to gendering myself (properly of course).

What language was it? French works like that too: shifting to verbs that don't have an audible variant, overusing passive voices, etc.

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Fortatech gregtech.eu Fortatech@gregtech.eu
Joined: 2024-07-23
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Hey, im trying my best

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Prancingpotato lemmy.world Prancingpotato@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-05
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Slightly relevant :
in my language (french) there is a distinction between a formal and informal "you" (tu/vous). I didn't know how to adress my in laws, so for several years I twisted sentences to avoid saying "you" altogether. Like I would say "do I make a coffee" or something like that instead of "do you want a coffee".

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Lena gregtech.eu lena@gregtech.eu
Joined: 2025-01-19
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Oh, I did that for a bit before coming out fully. I got really good at making it sound normal. Then it took a months to shift back to gendering myself (properly of course). What language was it? French works like that too: shifting to verbs that don't have an audible variant, overusing passive voices, etc.

Slovenian

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Ramzaki lemmy.blahaj.zone Ramzaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-01-30
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Image appears broken :(

But, as for the title, I speak Spanish and I would do that too after my egg broke and couldn't socially transition yet!

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