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Hey ya'll, apologies for the MSA video update schedule being a bit out of whack.

For this month, we got a very concerned Arthur, ready to freak out at a moment's notice.

Video work continues, with many of the outdoor area backgrounds complete, additional effects getting done, and more shots being put through the post processing ringer!

In honor of Pride month (despite this post being a couple days late), I did a little bit of research into non-binary pronouns in Irish, with the goal being able to tell you all how to use them.

The first instinct for English speakers would be to use “they” or siad/iad, but siad is only ever used to talk about multiple people. Anybody who doesn’t already know that you’re talking about someone who uses non-binary pronouns would just get confused.

The research I did showed a few non-binary pronouns, but nothing official or widely used.

duí — comes from the Irish word for “person”, duine, but doesn’t intuitively make sense to someone that doesn’t know it

siú — apparently originates from Duolingo, and was created as a pronoun to bear resemblance to sé/sí, and may be useful in spoken Irish (it sounds similar to a pronoun, so someone who doesn’t know what you’re talking about may be more likely to understand you)

sin — from what I’ve seen online, sin (literally “that”) is actually in use for some non-binary native speakers, but it still isn’t very prevalent (it would probably be understood by most people speaking Irish)

sé — this is the masculine pronoun, but it is also used in situations where the gender of the subject is unknown (or doesn’t exist), the only problem is that using binary pronouns is often exactly what non-binary people are trying to avoid

If none of these (rather unappealing) options appeal to you, I did find an example online of someone who lives in Ireland, and occasionally speaks Irish with non-binary people. They acknowledge that Irish doesn’t have any non-binary pronouns, and talk about the system that they and their friends use in Irish. Simply, they make a nickname into a pronoun. It isn’t a great solution, but it apparently works in practice.

webp. more like wet ppee.

From: Milano’s Odd Job Collection by Westone

Also Milchick: realizes if he leaves he won’t be able to do his big dance number that he worked so hard on