My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like “no-vee-ay” instead of “no-vee-ah/oh”
I have adopted that generally when it’s come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
From my understanding of spanish gendered words, this seems the most logical. I’m by no means fluent tho… and in most circumstances it still seems silly and unnecessary to do this. If native Spanish speakers want to neuter their words, thats for them to do and let the rest of the world know about… Tumblr and American university students certainly shouldn’t have been considered the authoritative voice on the matter.
edit: in conversation with a non-binary spanish speaker, this may be not at all silly and perfectly necessary… just to be clear
My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like “no-vee-ay” instead of “no-vee-ah/oh”
I have adopted that generally when it’s come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
From my understanding of spanish gendered words, this seems the most logical. I’m by no means fluent tho… and in most circumstances it still seems silly and unnecessary to do this. If native Spanish speakers want to neuter their words, thats for them to do and let the rest of the world know about… Tumblr and American university students certainly shouldn’t have been considered the authoritative voice on the matter.
edit: in conversation with a non-binary spanish speaker, this may be not at all silly and perfectly necessary… just to be clear