Gender pronunciation for the genderless

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How should we pronounce genderless things, like robot or genderless alien? pre-existing pronunciations like "he" or "she" don't fit and "it" sounds disrespecting, our alien and robotic friends might declare war on us if we don't respect their genderless statue! How can we prevent this? Should we normalize new pronunciations like "ze", or just ask aliens and robots their pronunciations upon contacts?
 
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Pronounce whatever how is looks. If people correct you, change it.
"Latinx," for example, I just pronounce "latin-eks" bu nobody likes that term so who cares?

Just do what's natural and if you're corrected then correct it. 9 times out of 10 they'll give you a pass for not knowing how to refer to them the first time.
 
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Penis Drager said:
Pronounce whatever how is looks. If people correct you, change it.
"Latinx," for example, I just pronounce "latin-eks" bu nobody likes that term so who cares?

Just do what's natural and if you're corrected then correct it. 9 times out of 10 they'll give you a pass for not knowing how to refer to them the first time.
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I'm nekogender, my pro-nyan-ciation is nym/nyan/nyan, please recognize me UwU
 
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Honestly? They and Them. It was standard practice for English since before Shakespearean times to refer to someone of 'unspecified gender.' With that historical precedence and the historical supremacy of explicit masculine and feminine pronouns, suffice it to say, non-traditional/binary pronouns would politely fall under the singular They/Them. The individuals requiring outside the binary are few and far between, thus belonging to the unspecified group.

You can argue all you want after the fact about the linguistics once some helocopter-kin explains themselves (see what I did there), but initially You, They and Them are the integrated catch-all for English.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Edit: Just a note: 'IT' is valid as a non-binary singular but English speakers have a bias where 'IT' is specified for inanimate or non-specific entities. You would pair 'The chair' with 'it.' 'The Iguana,' with 'it.' and even 'The human' with 'it.' The specificity mentioned in this edit is different to that which I mentioned above. There are levels and nuance.
 
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