Comment on Youtube (I know, I know, corporate media, but Peertube doesn't have the content I want) doesn't support my pronoun (or custom pronouns not in their predefined list) 🙄

• jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Pirtatogna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”

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    • Pirtatogna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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