existing as a slavic queer on birdsite be like:
>reply to a post outside your circle
>"""discourse""" on gendered verb conjugations starts
>"I don't know if [the word "had" conjugated with neutral pronouns] is in polish"
>"this form doesn't exist same as your 'non-binary'" [shows screenshot with conjugations which include the neutral one for 3rd person 🤷]
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>dear reader, the neutral conjugation in 1st person can be found in textbooks for polish from 1796 and 1824 next to female and male, in texts by very well-known writers such as Adam fucking Mickiewicz (1840 - yes, 1st person) or Stanisław Lem (1976 - yes, also 1st person), or even a fucking Christmas carol (this one 3rd person only; because people used to refer by them to kids more often)
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@lau Oooh, I forgot about Dzienniki Gwiazdowe in this context. Thanks, it's a very useful source of framing when trying to think about a neutral-gendered sapient entity.

@robryk zaimki.pl (and other pronouns.page language sites) has a pretty big database with examples of culture texts with various pronouns/conjugations, very helpful with that IMO: https://zaimki.pl/korpus (also appears on each pronoun page)

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