Linguist errant. Occasional German speaker. Currently in IT @ UMass Amherst. Forever in pursuit of linguistickery & hijinks. Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Just finished the @lingthusiasm bonus ep. w/ @kirbyconrod! (Plz let me know if you want to talk German neopronouns. I did a deep dive on them back in 2015 as preparation for the Middlebury Deutsche Schule.)
@_l17r_@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod Right. But I thought (at least in spoken German), it was somewhat common to use “sie” for a known “Mädchen,” because of the inanimacy of “es.”
@_l17r_@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod Does “es” carry the same nonanimate connotations in German as “it” does in English? (Like, I know English speakers who do use “it” as a pronoun, but it’s generally a pretty marked form here.)
@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod My favorite role term suffix is just -x, so: Professx and Studentx. Here’s an article about a prof who uses that: https://t.co/BQFc876UfD. It’s sensationalized in that way a lot of articles about language innovation and queer people are sensationalized, but it’s also informative.
@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod I’m also fond of the Sylvain Conventions for doing nonbinary German, which uses -nin as a gender-neutral plural suffix for role terms, in addition to using that as its primary pronominal form.
@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod The best part about Heger’s pronoun system is that it goes waaaaaay beyond just pronouns and into possessives, determiner forms that sometimes get used with names for info structural reasons, etc.
@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod Okay. So. The website is in German, but @IlliAnnaHeger has a set of pronouns that’s been through a heck of a lot of development over the years and has even been used in various German media. https://t.co/LNsvHzUpBj
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