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Multilingual chapos: do you have a woke gap between the different languages you speak? (hexbear.net)
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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.

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[–] Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

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.