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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “They” is plural, not singular.

  It can be used to refer to single people, and using a plural instead of a singular is a very common way for many languages to show deference to the person you’re speaking to. Like in Finland. English already did that and did it so much it got rid of the second person singular, as “you” is a second person plural. This ofc meant there was nowhere for English to go vis-a-vis showing deference, so English really stresses titles. Narcissism of small differences, really.

  nobody thinks…

  Based on the votes I’ll have to disagree and say you don’t really know what others think.

  So, to reiterate, you would rather that I start using archaic stereotypes to think about people and language? I have to condition myself into thinking of everyone as either a boy or a girl, and always make a mental note to gender someone as soon as I make contact with them? The first thing I do should be to gender them? That’s your takeaway?

  Maybe try reading my comments again, with some thought. You’re not the hero here.

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  • clickyello@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    incorrect, “they” can be singular or plural. that’s not even a recent “woke mind virus” change to the language, it’s always been the case.

    you literally did gender her immediately when you said “guy … his” the appropriate thing to do would be to respect the pronouns she put on her profile when they were pointed out to you.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      incorrect, “they” can be singular or plural.

      Thus it’s not a singular. It can be used as one, but it doesn’t specify a singular, thus it isn’t one. I can use a shovel as an axe, but it doesn’t make it an axe, even though both are tools for splitting wood.

      “You” isn’t singular.

      I’ll demonstrate how sorely you are wrong in this matter. If you can translate the following sentence to English without it losing meaning or misgendering someone, I’ll change my comment; “hänen autonsa.” Take care to notice it is not synonymous with “heidän autonsa”.

      Go ahead. I’ll wait.

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• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  hero

  Also gendered language btw

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So you’re saying you don’t believe women can be heroes?

    That’s super sexist.

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    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can be, if they change their gender identity. Same way they’d become actors or waiters. Blame the 8 languages duct taped together that form English.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There’s no need. “An actor” / “a hero” is already a gender neutral term in common usage, no matter how archaic your inner world is or whatever conservative bumfucknowhere you live in.

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• Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  you’re not the hero here.

  What is projection alex?

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  • CharmOffensive@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You defending some guy who’s wrong for…reasons?

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How could they be wrong? They apologized and explained that it isn’t intentional and why. What exactly do you need to be happy here, seppuku?

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      • CharmOffensive@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They didn’t apologize, they doubled down with some of the most insipid bullshit about pronouns not existing instead of just saying “oh yeah, I didn’t see the name, I’ll edit it my comment”.

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