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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by wrenchmonkey@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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alt text: a tweet within a tweet. "coworker asked me my pronouns and I said 'they/them but I'm at work right now so it's whatever' and then she came up to me later and said 'this is you'" (showing a tweet that says) i'm probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Maybe ze? The way "they" sounds with a German accent?

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I've seen dey/dem which I find just doesn't sound natural. I generally say "die Person" for gender neutral speech.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

"ze" is more like "the", no? I've seen "dey" been used sometimes, but it's not common at all

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"Ze" would be pronounced like "tsay." "Zie" would be closer to "the", sounding like "tsee."

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Probably understood that in the wrong direction. Ze (eng. phon.) would be spelled more like "sie" (ger. phon.) and would sound like "the" with a German accent. They would become either dey (eng. phon.) or zey (eng. phon.), spelled like "deej" or "seej" (ger. phon.), or even without the y (or j) at the end.

I think. I'm neither native German or English.