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Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Stuff that I've seen from people addressing this:

using -@, -e or -x instead of either.
picking either randomly, and acknowledging "language limits". (laypeople way to say "grammatical gender does not necessarily coincide with social gender")
picking both and using them randomly
triggering gender agreement with some additional word, e.g. "la persona no binaria" will always use -a since it agrees with "persona" (person)
"the dance" aka rephrasing

The -@ and -x things don't work well when spoken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Even though I don't understand Spanish, the christ-e just seems like the greatest hellstar option; it sounds natural and blends in with the language as well as you could hope from a new, non-natural entity.

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