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Conlangery #130: Interview with Kaye Boesme

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Having a Gender Neutral Pronoun in Third Person

Pronouns in third person are based on whether or not somebody has been initiated into adulthood using the gender rituals so it's like you don't use that for kids or for people who haven't completed those gender rituals. Without having some some use of a gender neutral pronoun in the English translation right you couldn't actually easily do that and I think that that is an interesting maybe facet of that choice. There's no there's no question in your stuff that this is meant to be seen as a translation because you've you've done that extra thing of flattening the pronouns, he says.

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