As a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language
What’s your preferred default pronoun? As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a universally accepted replacement, since any pronoun comes with drawbacks. ‘he’ & ‘she’ are gendered, ‘it’ typically refers to non-sentient things, and ‘they’ can cause confusion about number. Of course, there’s also neopronouns, but people have come up with a billion, and there’s no consensus or standard, so I can’t confirm the person I’m talking to will understand.
I find it annoying when ‘he’ is used as a default pronoun for an entity of unknown gender.
you must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.
As a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language
The difference between those and English is that they use grammatical gender, but English takes it literally
Yeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages
Yeah, you use whichever you want and just worry about it less.
German works. We have more than enough options for non-genered language.
Yeah, those languages are awful
What, you think momma bear would ignore someone who needs help?
we’re talking about a fucking bear.
of course he’s a man.
What’s your preferred default pronoun? As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a universally accepted replacement, since any pronoun comes with drawbacks. ‘he’ & ‘she’ are gendered, ‘it’ typically refers to non-sentient things, and ‘they’ can cause confusion about number. Of course, there’s also neopronouns, but people have come up with a billion, and there’s no consensus or standard, so I can’t confirm the person I’m talking to will understand.
Singular they
As in “just ask them to review your PR”.
It’s not new either. It’s been in use since the 14th century.
Singular they has been used since Shakespearian times to refer to people of unknown gender. You’ve probably used it yourself.
Ri for singular, ili for plural. 🏳️🟩⭐🟩
Oh, hello weird emoji ligature parsing.
Fun fact: 3rd person is literally just a letter in turkish: O
In Finnish it’s just one pronoun: hän
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