• bremen15@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    Everything is simple when you know the solution.

    I was not really expecting English speakers to use my German pronouns, they are for German speaking people.

    Would that be the Dativ or Akkusativ form? They are both quite common and important

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      5 months ago

      Yep, pretty much what UNY0N said. It is about the gender, not the pronouns per se. It is an English thing that they have gendered pronouns when mostly all other stuff in the language is (assumed not) gendered. Such meticulus discussion of pronouns detached from gender makes me wonder what your reaction would be if someone held a door open for you and then called you Fraulein. Would you feel misgendered then?

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      5 months ago

      Okay, then you use whichever English pronoun you wish to use. Again, pretty simple. I really don’t think this is something you couldn’t have figured out for yourself just by spending time around English speakers or even just watching English-language media or listening to English-language music.