jaennaet@sopuli.xyz â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesnât make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since itâs just going to be âhänâ regardless of gender
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesnât make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since itâs just going to be âhänâ regardless of gender
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I specifically like it because itâs not gendered though
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Oh sure, I donât disagree at all, Iâm just trying to think of the logic behind why itâs not in the list.
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Half the finns donât even use âhänâ. In day to day conversations itâs frequently replace with âseâ which is basically âitâ, making no difference between living things and inanimate objects. That is not considered impolite or anything like that. Itâs more a dialect thing.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I know Iâm biased, being a native Finnish speaker and all, but I think itâs kinda delightful that (at least colloquially) we donât even bother with separating pronouns by animacy.
While speakers of Indo-European languages get so worked up over having a pronoun just for them, weâre like âlol everyone and everything is âitâ, problem solved, time for beerâ
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
As a native finn I agree. So much noise and so many impractical solutions for something that we have for all intents and purposes solved millenia ago.