I tried to think of the dutch word for ‘maroon’ recently, you know the societies built by escaped slaves in the new world, and the dutch phrase I remembered was forrest-[n-word]. And theres no way thats still used.
A lot of “Woke” concepts got imported via the internet or academia, so the word for them is just the English word.
Like you’ll go
Bløh di bløh di bløh di Gender queer bløh di bløh di bløhIt’s funny because we will sometimes have a local variant on this. Like we technically have an equivalent of queer. But it is not reclaimed. It is still very much offensive. So instead of the local word being reclaimed we just use the English word, and the local words just stay slurs.
This also goes for other words that can be used positively by other minority groups.
Non-English word? Slur
English word? Potentially wokeSince I don’t want to teach anyone any slurs you’re just gonna have to take my word for it.
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same also adding if you can’t you’re a liberal
russian is very not woke. Nouns have gender and verbs in the past tense do as well, so good luck being nonbinary. I suppose you could try using neuter but thats also what phobes do to dehumanize and I feel iffy trying to reclaim it.
kazakh is a lot better since theres only third person pronoun and gender does not exist as a grammatical category. Everyones nonbinary by default!
Also like the other comment said a lot of woke words are just imported from english. Some are understood by a wider audience, but most only if ur in the know.
Yeah but not just woke language. Large part of my in person exchanges are in English too and I often struggle for words in my native language.
edit: I guess with regards to gender woke language my position might be somewhat controversial in German. I think the efforts are misguided. It’s either making the language more binary or less pronounceable. Personally my proposal that I haven’t anyone else bring forward is to actually introduce a masculine form rather than continue treating the neutral form as masculine and trying to come up with new inclusive (to varying degrees) forms.
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I make it a point to read radical texts in each language I speak in order to have the vocabulary necessary to discuss such topics if I should choose to.
In Spanish, the most common male gender ending is -o, and the most common female gender ending is -a, so when you want to include both you can use the “@”, as in “hola chic@s” (hi girls/boys). I always liked it, but only works for written language.
Either that, or you can just go to the diminutive and say “hola chiquis” (hi little girls/boys) which is not gendered. I use it constantly in spoken language.
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