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Conlangery #130: Interview with Kaye Boesme

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How to Use Gender Neutral Pronouns in Fiction

In the social such a mid-sudden I decided to go with gender neutral pronouns for every single character in the work. Gender does work a little bit differently in a lot of these cultures where social performance of gender doesn't correspond in the same way to physical chromosomes that we have in western American culture so there is that. Part of that is with constructed languages that I'd been working on since I was in my late teens and I just turned 30 and so I've been working on a lot of this stuff for a while. Yeah, talking about the novel pronouns, neologisms rather than you know what's sort of becoming the standard is singular use of they.

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