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
Maybe ze? The way “they” sounds with a German accent?
I’ve seen dey/dem which I find just doesn’t sound natural. I generally say “die Person” for gender neutral speech.
“ze” is more like “the”, no? I’ve seen “dey” been used sometimes, but it’s not common at all
“Ze” would be pronounced like “tsay.” “Zie” would be closer to “the”, sounding like “tsee.”
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.
I wrote “ze” and "zie"from a German phonetic perspective. “Tsay” and “tsee” are the English ones.