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Pringles

Pringles

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Malakhith said:
As someone that speaks a very similar language to Spanish (portuguese) it actually looks correct, even if weird.

We don't actually have a neutral gender (the government tries to push one but most common people can't understand it) and when speaking we'll end up using a ending based on how the person looks. So não binário e não binária would be the most common usage.

Even when trying to be the most neutral possible, like stating something like: ''that person is non binary'' because of how the language works it would end up with ''Aquela pessoa é não binária''(because of how binária has to agree with the pronoun aquela) in colloquial language. Again, if you try the forced neutral language ''aquile'' most common people wouldn't understand.

I assume it's the same in most romance languages. Any native spanish speaker can answer that?
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I'm Spanish my fellow neighbor and I agree with what you said :cheers:
 
NikaInParis

NikaInParis

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#182,488
#182,488
Malakhith said:
As someone that speaks a very similar language to Spanish (portuguese) it actually looks correct, even if weird.

We don't actually have a neutral gender (the government tries to push one but most common people can't understand it) and when speaking we'll end up using a ending based on how the person looks. So não binário e não binária would be the most common usage.

Even when trying to be the most neutral possible, like stating something like: ''that person is non binary'' because of how the language works it would end up with ''Aquela pessoa é não binária''(because of how binária has to agree with the pronoun aquela) in colloquial language. Again, if you try the forced neutral language ''aquile'' most common people wouldn't understand.

I assume it's the same in most romance languages. Any native spanish speaker can answer that?
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Most languages with cases and grammatical genders would have something similar to that
For example, in south Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian):
- nebinaran (male grammatical gender)
- nebinarna (female grammatical gender)

Using a neutral version - nebinarno - would paint the person as an object, which would be weird.
 
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