RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikaeru/115583941639906512

There is a very interesting article about gender-inclusive pronouns in Chinese, including mentions of characters yet to be added to the Unicode set, making use of Ideographic Description Sequences (IDS): ⿰无也, ⿰㐅也, ⿰男也...

Janet Davey. (2025). Taking "TA" Beyond the Binary: In Search of Multimodal Gender-inclusive Pronouns in Chinese. Image & Narrative, 25(03), 131–163. Retrieved from https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417

🔗 [PDF] https://imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417/2829

#Unicode #Chinese #GenderInclusive #PersonalPronouns

Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):

« The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to ⿰㐅也 (3p gender-neutral, ⿰男也 (3p explicitly male), ⿱妳心 ( f. equivalent of 您), ⿱我心 (Taiwanese 1p plural), is ⿱她心 (f. equivalent to 怹) »

🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co.uk/post/3lbrxowqt7k24

#Unicopedia #Unicode #BabelStone #Chinese #PersonalPronouns

If you’re trying to understand why people use pronouns like they/them when they look like a she/her or he/him, let this guide enlighten you

TLDR: it’s about what they identify as so when you respect their choices as to what to refer to him, her, or they, you respect the individual

#inclusion #personalpronouns

Reference https://pronouns.org/what-and-why

How would you explain “they/them” to a cis, (straight) female (she/her) trying to understand the pronouns?

A friend asked me this and (me, bi) feel ill-equipped to respond as I’m also a she/her 🏳️‍🌈

For context: this friend is a transplant from Beijing to Vancouver and admits she only understands he/him and she/her so when she sees “she/they” she gets confused!

If you’re a she/they, he/they, or they/them: any suggestions? Thanks in advance 🙏 #personalpronouns