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minus-squaredankm@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoThe neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.
minus-squarejlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours agoYeah, but in English you don’t go around and label EVERYTHING with the other two genders (only if you’re a bit weird and pretend your car is a she or something) and our they is the same as the female pronoun (sie), which makes that unusable as well.
The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.
Yeah, but in English you don’t go around and label EVERYTHING with the other two genders (only if you’re a bit weird and pretend your car is a she or something) and our they is the same as the female pronoun (sie), which makes that unusable as well.