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German is woke
It totally isn’t unfortunately, the gender neutral pronoun (if that’s what it’s called?) doesn’t work for humans.
oh, it does work…
…if you’re bigoted enough.
Or if you’re so progressive that you know how to Entgendern nach Phettberg.
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.
Why not though? Just because it sounds rude or something?
Yes.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
It totally isn’t unfortunately, the gender neutral pronoun (if that’s what it’s called?) doesn’t work for humans.
9bananas@feddit.org 2 months ago
oh, it does work…
…if you’re bigoted enough.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Or if you’re so progressive that you know how to Entgendern nach Phettberg.
dankm@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Why not though? Just because it sounds rude or something?
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yes.