jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesn’t make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since it’s just going to be “hän” regardless of gender
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesn’t make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since it’s just going to be “hän” regardless of gender
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I specifically like it because it’s not gendered though
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Oh sure, I don’t disagree at all, I’m just trying to think of the logic behind why it’s not in the list.
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Half the finns don’t even use “hän”. In day to day conversations it’s frequently replace with “se” which is basically “it”, making no difference between living things and inanimate objects. That is not considered impolite or anything like that. It’s more a dialect thing.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I know I’m biased, being a native Finnish speaker and all, but I think it’s kinda delightful that (at least colloquially) we don’t even bother with separating pronouns by animacy.
While speakers of Indo-European languages get so worked up over having a pronoun just for them, we’re like “lol everyone and everything is ‘it’, problem solved, time for beer”
Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 1 month 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.