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

  • samus12345@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “Ze” would be pronounced like “tsay.” “Zie” would be closer to “the”, sounding like “tsee.”

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        I wrote “ze” and "zie"from a German phonetic perspective. “Tsay” and “tsee” are the English ones.