Armeattla wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:The issue with "they/them" pronouns is that they only work in languages which allow for gender neutrality. Languages such as Spanish, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Italian, etc. Some of those on that list are amongst the most widely spoken in the world. By demanding that a significant proportion of the world refer to you in a way that's impossible in their language is well, yea, it ain't gonna get you anywhere. Unless you specifically include Arabic, French and Spanish, amongst others (which so happen to be amongst the largest languages in the world), and if you do exclude them, then really, what's the point?
That kinda sounds like you think it's some top-down demand, or one exclusively from english people...
Anyways, Enby people even in those languages find way to arrange themselves, including neutral referral.
German has the same issue, so we just stole "They/Them" and kept it unchanged or germanized it to "Dey/Deren" (with Deren actually already being an existing word- being an obscure genitive singular of the feminine article Die and genitive plural of all three articles Der, Die and Das)
Even other languages will have such arrangements. Language is shaped by those who speak it, not by those who preach it.
Facinating