#the default pronouns are il/ils (he and its plural form)

[nucleiaster]

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I was tagged by @measlywritingblog to share the last seven lines/paragraphs of my WIP ! Thank you for the tag !!

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Context : The Captain and Jill are picking up new (illegal) cargo, and the Captain can't help but wonder what is inside the box. It's a game the crew plays, trying to guess what they are transporting. They never get answers, because if they want to get paid they can't open the crates they are given.

CW : animal abuse and mentions of violence under the cut

They had opened a crate only once before, because of the smell.

They had discovered a cargo of small six-legged reptiles, most of them dead due to the lack of air and the shocks caused by the transportation of the crate. They had thrown the cadavers out of the ship, sold the rest at their next stop, and Etha and Jill had wanted to keep one of the survivors, who lived a cozy life in the Radio Isotope's garden. The reptile had tripled in size, going from the size of the Captain's smallest finger to the length of his hand, and had kept a form of respect for Jill, the only crewmember it had not managed to bite during its rescue.

The Captain had found the man who had given them the job, and stuffed him in a crate ready to be embarked on a relay-ship. The man had been discovered before he met the same fate as his reptiles.

The rumor had spread, and people learned : the Captain of the Radio Isotope did not smuggle living cargo, and those who tried to double-cross him would come to regret it.

#default #sci fi story #radio isotope #ch : captain #cw animal abuse #the reptile is named junior #it's actually a relic from the very very very first version of the story #there was a whole plot about weird lizard experiments #also fun fact #french is a stupid and very gendered language #the default pronouns are il/ils (he and its plural form) #but the captain comes from a matriarchal society #so his default pronouns are elle/elles (she and its plural form) #i keep having to go back and edit whole paragraphs because of it #kinda sad that it'll be lost in translation #anyway i'll stop rambling and go write my quota ! #thanks again for the tag measly it's always a pleasure !!

[barbietoiles]

Well if it was swimming with a raft "nager avec un radeau" is totally correct, just not that common mdrrrrr

Yeah our words are weird like who decided that a banana would be "UNE banane"??? My take is that you just learn the pronouns of the words by living your life and earring people talk about these words, but there is no logic to just guess if it's "un" or "une" 😭

In school students often laugh saying that to guess a Spanish word, you have to take a French one and add "o" or "a" at the end (so students often make up words if they don't know the translation lmao)

But for us it's also much more difficult than in English for the gender neutral pronoun ; since in English everything is genderless, you can say "they are tired"

In French, you would say,

for a masculine pronoun : il est fatigué

for a feminine pronoun : elle est fatiguée

so for a gender neutral pronoun : iel est fatigué.e

it's called "inclusive writing"! As you can guess old people and far-right ppl are totally against, saying it's denaturing our language and bla bla bla but in fact, my teachers use it a lot in email to address a big group of students and include everyone like " à tous les étudiant.e.s". Bc we have a dumb rule that we learn in primary school that "masculine win over feminine" (le masculin l'emporte sur le féminin) meaning that if you have 10 girls and only 1 guy, you still have to say "ils" in plural. So with that it's easier to include everyone in written form !

And yep I never really watch multigaming before twitch tbh, there are only two men that can makes me watch league of legend, and they are etoiles and kameto (I don't understand a single thing 🫠)

(The space invader does look better on pc, he even has small codes to help him jump!)

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No logic to it.... i see i see.... you live and you learn.... pain. I must listen to etoiles and baghera well!

The "take a french word and make it spanish" is hilarious and also quite cute kkkk. Its like my sister, who makes english words by saying latvian words in an english accent. And ALSO!! I KNEW IT i mentioned to an irl friend that im learning french and that learning spanish beforehand helped a lot because theyre similar and they said "french and spanish are nowhere near similar". SUCK IT BABY, i know what im talking about!!

The inclusive language looks a bit silly with the full stop lol but i think its clever. -é.e. i can choose to be é or e or . , very nice kkkkk. But yeah, old folks will complain about anything, the pissiness of latvian folks when a "no gender" bathroom is mentioned can be UNREAL (though usualy all the angry people are on the internet loll). Cant imagine how it would be if we tried doing inclusive language lol. (Or maybe we could just do a "oh its like russians ono dont worry about it" reasoning lol)

The "male over female" is a whole rule??? Oh my D: its usual to have the masc form be kind of considered "default", but thats crazy..... We use the "viņ(š)(a)" writing very often in emails and documents, its not considered progressive at all because its what we were always using pretty much? But the masc word always comes first. And ive noticed a phenomenon of masc even being considered "gender neutral", because to kind of neutrally address someone you COULD address them in the plural form, but problem is we also have gendered plural lol. So usually the masc one is used to kind of make the person "gender neutral". Its hard....

Theres going to be league of legends? Oh no... one friend played it all the time and it looks so boring ;u;..... well, its etoiles i dont care if game is boring i can get distracted by his shitty facecam mdr

(Also, im using mdr now, its so fun. Saying it out loud is good "r" practice kkkkk)

#ask bits #octo tag <3