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    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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