In Chinese, verbally the world for he, she, and it are all the same pronunciation. It is only differentiated in writing.
Contain them
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bystander@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
stray@pawb.social 33 minutes ago
The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical “person” with “woman”.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
I could be an it. A good little toy.
Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Average blahaj user
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
:3
OpenStars@piefed.social 7 hours ago
30p87@feddit.org 14 hours ago
“A toy? A Lego set??”, she asked excitedly, and wagged her tail.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
This is why everything is a little shit to me. I’m just getting all of them in one combined s/h/it word.
fartographer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
Gotta reuse fiber to hit the daily recommended.
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I would guess that yes, that’s (h) it
lbfgs@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Turkish has no gender specific pronouns so this is every Turkish speaker I guess
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Not even for people? I dont know why that sounds so strange but it does.
guy@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Neither does finnish
lbfgs@programming.dev 9 hours ago
There is only one third person singular pronoun (“O”) used for people (regardless of gender) and objects alike.
bizzle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Using “it” to refer to human beings feels super disrespectful to me. Dehumanizing much? 1992 called they want their attitudes about trans people back. Obviously if someone told me they prefer “it” pronouns I’d use them but I would feel gross about it.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
You wouldn’t like how people in Finland speak then 😅
(We have hän for s/he but almost everyone just uses se {it} in spoken language)
brown567@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Can’t be dehumanizing if you use the for all humans XD
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I don’t wanna be human, anyway. Dehumanize me. Dogicize me instead.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Don’t learn Finnish I guess.
No gendered pronouns and we honestly use “it” (se) as a pronoun. No, I would never use it in English unless I meant to purposefully dehumanise someone, but in Finnish it’s just the normal colloquial version of a personal pronoun, whereas “hän” is a 3rd person pronoun that’s more formal, (but also non-gendered) . Pets usually get to be referred to as “hän” with the more formal personal pronoun, weirdly enough.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 45 minutes ago
I can understand using more respectful language for pets than people.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
Why would you feel gross respecting a trans person’s preferred pronouns? If a trans person wants to be thought of as an object, would you genuinely think of it as an object, or would you think of it as a person but still call it by its preferred pronouns? Because the second option would cause cognitive dissonance and might be the reason you’d feel gross.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Don’t read Lois McMaster Bujolds “Vorkosigan Saga” On of the bio engineered races preferred “it” when being gendered.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I’ve run into this a while ago but I’m not sure what to make of it. aria.dog/barks/on-being-a-thing/
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Holy shit… You can have domains that end in .dog?
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 minutes ago
You can have domains that end in even more stuff if you switch to an alternative dns root like opennic.org.
pieland@piefed.social 7 hours ago
and .pizza, .gay
there are lots of fun ones
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
Based based based based based
…Waow
stray@pawb.social 7 hours ago
“It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
It’s your choice. Do what you want. Damn the haters to sheol.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
it’s generally used to describe non-sentient things…
Also, using only it gets confusing when trying to determine what “it” refers to in a given sentence…
Nima@leminal.space 15 hours ago
I never get mad at “it” because it gives me flashbacks to Shale from Dragon Age Origins and I absolutely love her. she’s amazing .
CPMSP@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Oh holy fuck I’m rolling!
How have I not seen this image of Radcliffe before? He looks absolutely deranged!
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
The back story is that he was elbowed in the face on the way to the car, and probably had stage makeup on.
https://chatterbusy.removed/2013/07/daniel-radcliffe-appears-exhausted-with.html?m=1
CPMSP@midwest.social 3 hours ago
Thanks for the context!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
Hey kid… wanna buy some drugs?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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