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[–] [email protected] 86 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (18 children)

no binario or binaria or maybe binarioa or binari or binarie

but please not binarix

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok, A Slur. Weird nickname bit. I am nothing if not accommodating.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hello Nothing if not accommodating, i'm dad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, i finally found my way home from the store, and i bought the milk like i promised i would!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

2 hours later

Pats jeans

Shit, I forgot my smokes, be back in 30

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No binarie el compañere.

EDIT: la compañere? Shit, back to square one.
Le compañere? Maybe. Articles in Spanish are rigidly male or female, the gender sometimes determines the difference between identical words.

El radio: the metal radium / La radio: the radio (AM, FM, shortwave, etc.)
El cometa: the comet / La cometa: the kite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I like binarix, have a dominatrix feeling

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Jokes aside, I think the correct one should be "binaria" because it's "persona no-binaria", where "persona" being a female-gendered word still includes everybody (persono doesn't even exist).

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Really, if you replace "gender of the person" to "gender of the noun", ChatGPT is correct.

It's people who can be little more picky about pronouns and stuff

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Precisely. It is “el género no binario” or “la persona no binaria”. It has nothing to do with the person, just the nouns. As “binario/a” is an adjective, it has no gender on its own.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

This legitimately trips up learners. How if the noun is female, it's correct to use feminine articles/pronouns/etc regardless of the person's gender, even if you know they're male. (or vice-versa).

That and plurals defaulting to male.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Native speaker here and no, that wouldn't be correct as a general rule. The most typical would be talking about or someone else like "yo soy no binario/a" and "yo" would be a he or a she depending on who is saying that. If you're talking about someone else it's "el/ella es no binario/a" for example.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

I'm digging how Japanese is just context based. The same sentence that says "He's cool" is the same as "She's cool" and "It's cool." What changes its meaning is the context you're using it in.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because what could possibly go wrong by inferring everything based on context?

[–] Classy 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

WWII war crimes, apparently

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Italian has all sorts of conjugations to not leave it to context, we can rule that theory out

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[–] cherenkov 12 points 6 months ago

Turkish has only one third person pronoun that encompasses he/she/it. Gender is similarly indicated with contextual clues.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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