I'm too exhausted to explain the "intricacies" of it online most of the time, and frankly, they're a bit too personal, you know? Like, sure, I don't mind discussing it with friends, but just doing a two-hour lecture so that a person I don't even know may agree to refer to me with my chosen pronouns? Oh, dear, you can miss me with that one xD Never mind doing it irl, that's far too risky in my case.
The whole thing about males centering their sentences around themselves...honestly I've only heard this in English! I mean, in Bulgarian you can tell the gender of the speaker pretty damn easily, cause most words are gendered, so for example a woman would say "Уморена съм" and a man would say "Уморен съм" when they both wanna say they're tired.
And another thing is that as a non-native speaker your level of fluency does "fluctuate" sometimes. For example, the male way is how I'd phrase myself when I'm tired, or in between translating languages, and the female one is closer to how I'd try to word it under normal circumstances. Though my online conversations have mostly shown that, regardless of how I phrase myself, people usually take me for...
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Date: 2023-05-06 09:18 pm (UTC)The whole thing about males centering their sentences around themselves...honestly I've only heard this in English! I mean, in Bulgarian you can tell the gender of the speaker pretty damn easily, cause most words are gendered, so for example a woman would say "Уморена съм" and a man would say "Уморен съм" when they both wanna say they're tired.
And another thing is that as a non-native speaker your level of fluency does "fluctuate" sometimes. For example, the male way is how I'd phrase myself when I'm tired, or in between translating languages, and the female one is closer to how I'd try to word it under normal circumstances. Though my online conversations have mostly shown that, regardless of how I phrase myself, people usually take me for...
A semi-conservative man in his 20s!!! ;-;