#otherkind

some thoughts:

i wish there was more navi language like id eather others try to speak it to you and then find out u cant speak it rather than Everyoen Defaulting To English

wheres my verticality!! i want more verticality!!! i want it to be so u enter the world and u are grounded bc u dont know/have the skills to go up, but if you Know then the verticality is there. COME ON !!!!!

idk how to describe it but this game feels very White.

you can call me L for now :) maybe someday i’ll connect my main blog but not yet. pronouns are he/him and i am an elf. no DNI

- asks that are blatantly racist, sexist, etc will be removed at my discretion. asks to the beat of “i think otherkin arent real” will just be deleted. why are you here man

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This isn't going to include an argument in favor of using inclusive language. That's outside the scope. If you don't care, you can stop reading here. The focus here is outlining a broadly applicable idea of what more inclusive language can look like for those who would like to use it but aren't sure how to go about it, and showing just how intuitive and natural it can be.

With that out of the way: What do I mean by "just say what you mean"?

The word human is used in a myriad of ways that do not mean 'genus Homo'. The idea here is to consider what it is you're actually getting at when you say it. What word or concept are you using "human" as a stand-in for? You'll find that the answer to what you can say instead usually lies there. I'm going to go through a couple examples of this idea in action. Just a couple, because I don't want to give you a long, overwhelming list of "instead of X, say Y" to memorize. I want to give you a framework for easily constructing & recalling inclusive language on the fly.

When someone makes a mistake, you might say something like "we are all human". Human in this context is being used to mean fallible, so you could say "we are all fallible." You could also use a different existing phrase that communicates the same thing, such as "everyone makes mistakes" or "nobody's perfect".

If you're hosting an art share on social media, you might say something like "Human artists, share your work!" In this context, human means '[artists] who don't use generative AI'. Unlike in the previous example, that would be clunky to slot in as a replacement, but it's very easy to reorganize the statement a little to say what you mean. Something like "Artists, share your work! (No genAI)".