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jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
oh, it does work…

…if you’re bigoted enough.

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- rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Or if you’re so progressive that you know how to Entgendern nach Phettberg.
  
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dankm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.

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- jlow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Why not though? Just because it sounds rude or something?

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- Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes.
  
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