Amenta RP

Anonymous asked: I genuinely want to try to avoid using caste to refer to strangers but my language doesn’t have a singular caste-neutral pronoun, is there a standardized solution for this that I don’t know about or do I just have to deal with it?

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You either have to deal with it or adopt colourless neopronouns. If your language doesn’t have an established colour-neutral pronoun, the constructed ones will probably be clunky and unnatural.

But even if I were writing to a monolingual audience, the core of my point wouldn’t be “don’t use coloured pronouns”. They’re a problem, but the problem isn’t one that’s fixed merely by adopting orthodox language. It takes some mindfulness to notice yourself rounding someone off to an instance of their caste, and to bring to mind other, unrelated things about them – but that’s really the core of it, the central tendency of what I miss in social justice.

 

tchtchtchtchtch:

“colourless pronouns”

have you ever heard of a more green idea

 

plain-dealing-villain:

#this makes me furious and I’m just gonna go to sleep now #shitpost #amenta#not sure this is even rp #linguistics inside joke #language

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#Amenta RP #(OP is roleplaying; I’m not) #Amenta #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #high context jokes #oh my god #language #(there’s at least one other post in my ”language” tag) #(where the punchline is ”colourless green ideas sleep furiously”) #(here’s another one for the collection)