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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.
The glottal stop in *innen is barely even audible if you are normal about it. I know chuds do the boomer cringe thing where they sound as if they have a hickup when they are forced to pronounce it, but glottal stops already exist in all kinds of German words, if you can pronounce Spiegelei normally you can also say Genoss*innen without sounding awkward. There is also zero evidence that using gender neutral spellings like that make German less readable. If people would actually care instead of using this as a strawman there would be thousands of other things to simplify about German first, especially any official government, administrative or legal text is deliberately unreadable garbage. That is not changed one bit when you force every government institution to misgender nonbinary people, that is changed by demanding these ink pissers to write in simplified German, which would actually be possible and a fun re-education exercise.
BTW the -y suffix is even easier than the *innen one, tho i'm not personally a fan of that.