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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (15 children)

three?!

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    German is woke

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    It totally isn't unfortunately, the gender neutral pronoun (if that's what it's called?) doesn't work for humans.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The neuter pronoun ("it") doesn't work for humans in English either.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yep. Masculine, feminine, and neuter. It’s annoyingly hard to learn. Plus all the other adjectives and such change to match. It’s wild.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter

    Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system

    Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period

    Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction

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