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• jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh, it does work…

    …if you’re bigoted enough.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or if you’re so progressive that you know how to Entgendern nach Phettberg.

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  • dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes.

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