Timeline for Stubbornly gender-neutral way to address or refer to your older sibling? (Wait a minute...what about non-binary?)
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| Aug 30, 2022 at 22:32 | comment | added | BCLC | @blues scifi se mods wouldn't let me use their or h. LOL | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 11:27 | comment | added | blues | @BCLC in english you simply would use they/their instead of he/she/his/her. So it would be "Grindelwald still pulls out their wand" | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 1:55 | comment | added | naruto | @BCLC Extremely strange means virtually incorrect. Anyway, I think you are trying to solve a "problem" that doesn't even exist in Japanese. Is there any good reason not to just use their (nick)name? Not many people use お兄ちゃん/お姉ちゃん in the first place, and no one needs a gender-neutral version of them. | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | BCLC | Re 1 - 'very challenging to talk about a certain person for a long time without using either "he/his/him" or "she/her" at all.' --> I am so stubbornly gender-neutral that I've thought of ways to do this in English. I often think to myself 'Is this how Japanese sounds like?' Eg I did it in the final revision: I said instead 'Grindelwald still pulls out a wand.' Is this in fact how Japanese would translate 'Grindelwald still pulls out his/her wand' : namely to treat the 'his/her' as if it were like 'a' instead or something? | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 21:24 | comment | added | BCLC | Re 2 - Extremely strange doesn't mean incorrect. That's the whole point of being stubborn. It's the same as 'big sib' instead of 'big bro/sis'. It is indeed strange, but I think the Japanese equivalent is I guess much stranger. But anyway maybe that's moot because I realised maybe it's not about being stubborn. What if the older sibling identifies as non-binary? So being non-binary means you don't get to be called either onii-chan or onee-san (or onee-chan or onii-san or whatever) ? | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 18:18 | history | edited | naruto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2022 at 18:12 | history | answered | naruto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |