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.hg
> virile: [adjective] [grammar] pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns
> nonvirile: [adjective] [grammar] pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter nouns, i.e. for all groups that do not include men or personal masculine nouns
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.hg I'm surprised at the “some Slavic languages” because I& know this language misfeature from Spanish
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@moonbolt In Polish the only plural genders are literally called "malepersonhood" and "non-malepersonhood". I remember being very confused and slightly annoyed by the gender asymmetry when I learned about this in primary school.
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@moonbolt Oh gods, I just realized that by default if I were to refer to y'all in Polish in some ways I should be using the virile forms, that feels weird...
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@timorl .hg we're amab? but of course that shouldn't matter? so you'd be using masc language because of, what, Bismuth and Carbon? who are decidedly unmasc and rarely seen, respectively?
*updates pronouns to say to use the non-virile forms in languages which do that*
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@moonbolt I've been thinking mostly about Carbon, even though we never spoke it would kinda be rude to implicitly grammatically omit him (and who would risk being rude to a dragon...).
I wonder how hard it would be to specify all the necessary pronoun and grammar information for all languages. It feels like it would be way too much work to be practical as a policy, but I also don't see how to solve the problems that might arise in any other way. D:
