#use of nouns and pronouns

[girl4music]

The person you’re dating doesn’t identify as a male or a female? Use gender neutral terms of endearment to refer to them by or as when talking about them and your relationship to them/their relationship to you so you can avoid ‘girlfriend/boyfriend’ and ‘wife/husband’ or anything with a ‘man/male’ or ‘woman/female’ as part of it. (Note: This is a lot more difficult than you think if they’re in a job position where there is traditionally a role with those gendered terms in it. I work as a ward hostess in a hospital and that is the official name of the job role. So you can just imagine how they’d have to accommodate for just a male worker alone, never mind a worker that doesn’t identify as either male or female. They could use “host” I guess but that’s still not very inclusive, is it?)

Some of the most common ones are:

Partner

Significant other

Lover

It depends on the depth of the relationship between you and them I guess. If it’s just starting out but is established enough for many people to know about you and them: “My honey” is a good one to use.

Married to them? Spouse. Marital partner.

Just engaged to them? Fiancé. Betrothed. Intended.

Some personal favourites of mine but I never see anybody really use them because of how intimate they are. You can thank Xena for most of these terms: My person. My home. My love. My entire heart. My source. My soulmate. My everything. My whole life.

Both Xena and Gabrielle identified as female and yet not once did they refer to each other in binary terms. And the fanfiction follows this trend by using “warrior” and “bard” in replacement of their actual pronouns.

And honestly… the most often terms they used to refer to each other by or as? They just referred to each other by their names most of the time. It’s hard to explain what I mean by this but there is a real intimacy in them just calling each other by their names in a very specific way. No shorthands or terms of endearment like “babe/baby” or “sweetie”. Just Xena/Gabrielle.

There was also a lot of use of “friend” but everybody who watches Xena knows that Xena uses that term regardless whether the relationship she has with another character is platonic or romantic. ‘Best friend’ or “Only friend” is the way she refers to Gabrielle. That can certainly get confusing when they have many friends between them. I specifically remember that one time when Xena referred to both Gabrielle and Aphrodite as her “girlfriends” and that was…. A lot. I actually really don’t like it when actual platonic female friends call one another ‘girlfriend’. It’s too confusing.

But anyway, besides that one time, it might be a dated show but ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ was actually pretty good for gender neutrality: “may the best person win”.

[official-linguistics-post]

"chat is a pronoun" has officially joined my list of internet linguistics pet peeves. "emojis are hieroglyphs" is welcoming them to the club.

[iamfuckingsorry]

So I've recently realized that murderbot's been translated into my native language and it's apparently a he in the translation (which admittedly makes sense, because it's a heavily gendered language and 1. gender-neutral language doesn't really exist in general and 2. "bot" and all the related words - I believe they use "droid" for mb in the translation - are grammatically masculine).

It made me curious how it's been handled in other translations though!

*e.g. being referred to by multiple gendered nouns/pronouns depending on the context, like both "bot" (masculine) and "machine" (feminine).

[pigdemonart]

Guau, ella es bisexual, i didn’t know that!

Vico and Fátima being little disasters, as usual. In ENG and SPA of course, tho imho the dialogue is always a little funnier in Spanish B^]

Imagine Fatima’s surprise when seeing that the captain of the baseball team from her old high school, is now being cunty at the supermarket???? The nerve. The audacity.

In reverse, imagine the horror of being openly queer but NOT knowing if the girl you’re interested in is Aware or even remotely Okay with your

💖gender thing.💖 How to even begin to explain???

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[kingoftheu]

love everything about the creature from before the time of labels in Hilda S3E6. The design. The voice. The little airsacks on the neck. The menacing hunt. The whole "if you are not food than you are friends" thing. Cryptic references, refusing all labels. iconic being

[neopronouns-list]

May I please have some constellation-related neopronouns?

of course, of course! these might drift slightly into general space-themed, but only slightly, hopefully! (: also i WOULD have made a list entirely out of the names of constellations, but those get long. so if anyone wants specifically constellation names pronouns,, shoot an ask!

they are under the cut ! ↓ change them as you wish o7

constellation/constellation/constellations/constellations/constellationself

con/conste/constelle/constellations/constellationself

stella/stella/stellas/stellas/stellaself

ste/stella/stellas/stellas/stellaself

star/star/stars/stars/starself

sta/star/stars/stars/starself

zodiac/zodiac/zodiacs/zodiacs/zodiacself

zo/zodi/zodiac/zodiacs/zodiacself

zodi/zodia/zodiac/zodiacs/zodiacself

astro/astro/astros/astros/astroself

as/astro/astros/astros/astroself

astral/astral/astrals/astrals/astralself

as/astra/astral/astrals/astralself

cassiopeia/cassiopeia/cassiopeias/cassiopeias/cassiopeiaself

ca/cassio/cassiopeia/cassiopeias/cassiopeiaself

cassio/peia/cassiopeia/cassiopeias/cassiopeiaself

dipper/dipper/dippers/dippers/dipperself

di/dipper/dippers/dippers/dipperself

cosmic/cosmic/cosmics/cosmics/cosmicself

co/cosmi/cosmic/cosmics/cosmicself

cos/cosmic/cosmics/cosmics/cosmicself

space/space/spaces/spaces/spaceself

celestial/celestial/celestials/celestials/celestialself

ce/celes/celestial/celestials/celestialself

cele/celestia/celestial/celestials/celestialself

[coquelicoq]

the thing about the prescriptive grammar rules of written french from my perspective as a non-fluent reader is that they are very helpful to me in figuring out what a sentence means (e.g., if a participle does or does not end in -e or -s, it gives me an important and sometimes essential clue as to which noun the participle is related to). but the other, equally relevant thing about the prescriptive grammar rules of written french from my perspective as a non-fluent reader is that there are a lot of them and i do not always know what they are. lol.

[thestardustheadmates]

Anything is a pronoun if you try hard enough,,,

[thepandalion]

in pronouns class

[sammydem0n64]

Felt like drawing Kartana’s expressions lol

[mirmidones]

obsessed with the cultural implications that differently gendered nouns hold in gendered languages... for example in french the sea is feminine! how wild is that! what kind of person would i be if the sea was feminine to me? in arabic the sun is feminine and the moon is masculine! fascinating!!!! and what kind of effect does this have on a bilingual person who grows with 2 different gendered suns? TRANS RIGHTS wait where was i going with this

[grubloved]

my #1 verbal expression of affection is calling people "my ____". im not sure how it started, it just kind of happens... my girl. my love. my (firstname). my favorite thing is that when i start doing this often people will respond in kind :) its true!!!! im ur birde!!!! u are my friend!!!! we are all each other's!!!!!

[marypsue]

Dammit, I started three paragraphs in a row with the exact same word but I'm not sure how to change any of them.

[peach-pot]

I genuinely am curious what the thought process behind “they/thems” as a noun is and who is meant to be included in that group, but I’m not sure if anyone following me uses they/them as a noun. and if anyone does I might’ve scared them off by being angry about it… sorry friends pspspsps come back I have a question

[mcmorare]

i did complete a number of assignments today but i think my real accomplishment was thinking through different grammatical conjugations for using slay as a loanword in german

[strangeharpy]

The problem with playing characters in TTRPGs with pronouns different than your own is that sometimes you'll realize you low-key want to steal those pronouns for yourself.