#another issue in croatian is that there are a fuckton of cases and i don't know how the fuck they/them pronouns work

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for the native spanish speakers, is the word m*rim*cha reclaimed? or is it just a slur? i have heard it used several times, but i wasn't sure if it was like dyke where queer people use it to describe themselves or whether it's just used as an insult.

and is it used primarily by people in/from mexico, or is it common across other countries as well?

and for people who speak other languages, are the slurs typically reclaimed, or are they avoided? does it depend on the word?

sorry to ask so bluntly, but google has not been helpful, and i'm just trying to understand more how languages work around marginalized identities, particularly queer/trans ones.

#sorry i was talking with someone about how much discourse there is around queer vocab in english #and how i don't know shit about it in other languages including croatian which i speak fluently! #and it's not like i have queer community there just cishet family half of whom are homophobic #and i didn't learn about it in french and it's not like i can ask my spanish teacher these questions #though he was very helpful when i asked him about how to make things gender neutral and exclusively refers to my partner as my pareja #another issue in croatian is that there are a fuckton of cases and i don't know how the fuck they/them pronouns work #anyway it just got me thinking about language around queerness generally in other languages #sorry to be so white with my question