Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Jesari (jeesusteippi) = duct tape (nicknamed “jesus tape”, because if it won’t stay put with duct tape, then only Jesus can help you)
Jesaroida = to use duct tape for something, to tape something together specifically with duct tape
Jesaroitte = you (either plural, or addressing one person with deep respect) duct tape/are duct taping/will duct tape
Jesaroinette = same, but in potential form: you (plural/respectful) may/will use duct tape for this, “I presume you will use duct tape”
Jesaroinettehan = last particle merely clarifies that the speaker considers the stated matter to be obvious, or as a way to request something while politely avoiding the imperative form
So the last word sums up to “I (politely) presume that you, naturally, would use/used/are using/will use duct tape for this, right?”
Jesaroimatta = duct tape has yet not been used in the thing
Jesaroimattajättämispäätös = A decision has been made that duct tape will not be used in the thing. In real official language.
WELL THIS IS ACTUALLY A REALLY FUNNY TOPIC IN MY CASE AND NEEDS A LONGER EXPLANATION.
My native language is Finnish. Finnish is a gender neutral language. There’s no way to tell the gender of ANYONE unless someone specifically underlines it by some other gendered word like boy, girl, man, woman, uncle, aunt etc.
Now, we have a one gender pronoun; hän. Hän covers all genders. The ones existing, the ones gone, the ones becoming. Except that hän isn’t even originally Finnish pronoun. The original Finnish pronoun is Se. Se means it.
Finnish native faith and worldview is polytheistic and shamanistic. Everyone and everything is equal to each other. Animals and plants are our sister and brothers, so Finnish people didn’t differ themselves from the nature. For example, when a young man left his childhood home to find himself a place to built his own house onto, he needed to ask a permission from a spruce before building the house. If the spruce approved him, he was free to settle next to the tree and use it as his guide and advisor. If not, he needed to find another tree.
Now, I think it was Christianity that arrived to Finland from West through Sweden. The Swedish priests were horrified to find out that barbaric Finns didn’t elevate themselves above animals like Christian God had intended. The priest decided that the language needs to be changes; hän for men, hen for women.
Finns were “Well excuse me NO, NO WAY. We will reluctantly accept hän but for all genders, and we will not use it except in formal situations thank you very much.”
Modern spoken Finnish still uses se (it) for everyone. I am it, you are it, my mom’s it, your mom’s it, the president is it, God is it. A normal Finnish conversation goes like: I spoke with Mari. It said its boyfriend was being an ass again. I told it it should leave it, as the guy is clearly an idiot, and how it means nothing but bad news, but Mari said it had feelings for it and how it would be a difficult thing for Mari to do, even if its being treated so badly by its boyfriend.
So, I personally have NO emotional connections to any gendered pronouns. NONE. If I could choose, I would be called it in English and in any gendered language, but it doesn’t work as it doesn’t have the same connotation in other languages.
That being said, she works for me in English and in gendered languages. But it doesn’t mean anything to me in a way that I MUST BE called she or else I’m upset. I don’t associate any gender for myself in/with language based pronouns because such thing doesn’t exist in my language. In Finnish, I’m it that is a female :D
And while we usually still use “se” when referring to people, almost everyone I know use “hän” while talking about their pet, plants… We decided to just screw it with pronouns. Reject humanity, return to monke.
Yes, this too! Some pet owners do speak about their pets as “hän”, which is used as a gender pronoun originally for humans by the demands of the Christianity as I mentioned. Plants go hän, too, and I personally use hän also for some items at time, especially if I’m upset with them lol. Like if my drawing monitor is giving me issues I can say “Hän is so annoying today!” Or I’m shuffling my oracle card deck and a card flies out and goes far away, I might say “Oh, hän was in a hurry, let’s see what hän wants to say”.
Using hän pronoun from non-human things is just returning back to the old times when everyone and everything was equal. It’s a loving way to underline that this pet/plant is very dear to me, a part of my family, they are equal to me and everyone else in this household (but it is OK to use “se” for animals and plants).
