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I'm genuinely not trying to start a flame war here. I'm curious because I never thought of that before. If you have particular pronouns that you prefer people call you what do you do when you are in a non-english speaking country and there isn't a word for your pronoun in their language?

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

There are multiple languages which have ungendered pronouns, Turkish is an example. And yes there are alternative pronouns in most widely used languages. Any that have a large enough population to have a sizable counterculture that would want them. It's absolutely not an exclusively English thing.

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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M

@MalteseFalconPunch Oh, yeah, when I said "some languages have ungendered pronouns" I meant in that there are some specific languages that don't differentiate between him/her, it's just a general they to try and put it in English terms. Turkish is one of these. There are also those that have implicit genders by nature and those do get tricky, but there's still alternative pronouns in those too if they're prevalent enough. I know I've seen some for German.

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JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

I would assume there would be an equivalent in each country..we are not the only country with pronouns ;)

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JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@MalteseFalconPunch they were not 'invented' here. They are used all over. We are also not the only country with people who identify differently. Each culture will create words to use as the world changes and evolves. It is a natural course ...when cavemen were alive they grunted. We have evolved. New words are added to the dictionary yearly...this is nothing abnormal here or anywhere.

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MethDozer · M

Just call them moron and retard because that is what they are.

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