Stacy Dickerman

Linguist errant. Occasional German speaker. Currently in IT @ UMass Amherst. Forever in pursuit of linguistickery & hijinks. Pronouns: they/them/theirs

[Stacy Dickerman @linguajinks]

Hi, y’all! LMK if you want codes for the other place. I’m improperlybusy over there.

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@_l17r_ @lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod I don’t actually know!

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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.)

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@_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.”

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@_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.)

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@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod Okay. Time to get ready for work. Which, sadly, does not involve talking about German, neopronouns, or German neopronouns.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod Basically following the same ending structure as the masculine determiner forms: der, den, dem, des.

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@lingthusiasm @kirbyconrod But basically they are:
NOM: xier
AKK: xien
DAT: xiem
GEN: xies

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@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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@jessgrieser @mixedlinguist I’ll be there tomorrow, since I work there now, but alas, not at the Institute.

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@beansvelocci?

[Jacob Romm @rommennoodle]

I'm looking to read/cite some trans scholars who write about surgery, health care, insurance coverage, and the "medical necessity" framework. Recommendations?

[Stacy Dickerman @linguajinks]

Several of my colleagues have [sʌŋk] as an irregular past form for “sync,” and I find it so endearing.

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My boss’s boss just did a bee-you-tiful phrasal reduplication: “…so we don’t image them image them” (=we don’t image them in the normal way).

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@tirerim @failbettergames Also, it looks like we do have the most current version of the game.

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@failbettergames My friend and I started playing Mask of the Rose today, and we completed the first day, but the game didn’t seem to auto-save then. Is there any way to correct for this? Did we do something wrong?

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@tirerim @failbettergames Yeah. We went back to the attic and slept, but no save.

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@tirerim @failbettergames We just downloaded it today. Does that not include the update?