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• OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  German is woke

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  • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It totally isn’t unfortunately, the gender neutral pronoun (if that’s what it’s called?) doesn’t work for humans.

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    • 9bananas@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      oh, it does work…

      …if you’re bigoted enough.

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    • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.

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      • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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    • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why not though? Just because it sounds rude or something?

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      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes.

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• Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Polish also has three. She, he, it/this.

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  • Lysergid@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Polish also distinguishes oni (they he) and one (they it/she). Probably most sexist language I know

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  • de_lancre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think most slavic languages in general, not just polish.

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter

  Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system

  Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period

  Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction

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• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep. Masculine, feminine, and neuter. It’s annoyingly hard to learn. Plus all the other adjectives and such change to match. It’s wild.

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  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When I studied German a bit for fun I gave up on trying to memorize the genders and just used “das” for everything. Yeah it’s wildly incorrect but still mostly understandable which is fine for me.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just say d’. It’s not wrong, it’s an abbreviation for whatever it’s supposed to be!

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