The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.
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jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days agoIt totally isn’t unfortunately, the gender neutral pronoun (if that’s what it’s called?) doesn’t work for humans.
dankm@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 4 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.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 day ago
Why not though? Just because it sounds rude or something?
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yes.
9bananas@feddit.org 2 days ago
oh, it does work…
…if you’re bigoted enough.