| > You have inflected nouns and adjectives -- you'd have to come up with new endings for those Two proposals that I've seen replace all endings with either -x or -ens. German source - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lann_Hornscheidt#Gendertheorie... Now one might think that these are outlandish ideas that will never fly, but... > And teach everyone to use them. ...that's easy, because languages changes are implemented top-down. Considering how unpopular the neutral forms using : and * are in polls, it is absolutely fascinating to see them spread so quickly from academia, to tech (macOS, Spotify), to local governments, to normie coworkers. Nonbinary people wouldn't have to do the teaching themselves. Edit: > ...not the neuter ones in case that this were offensive in German... My first intuition was that using the neutral gender would indeed be offensive. But children (das Kind) and girls (das Mädchen) are neutral - and it doesn't feel rude to refer to them as "it"? I think it could work. |