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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Gendered pronouns in most sentences are a waste and often lead to a false ascertainment. While I don't use 'it' for everyone, I would love to get used to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is why the universal language should be Indonesian. No gendered words, no pronouns, heck there's even no tenses. By the way, you also pronounce the words the way it was written like Latin so there's no confusion on how to pronounce the words. The grammar is also straightforward enough you can just grab a dictionary and start speaking coherent Indonesian.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

After trying to learn Portuguese this sounds like heaven.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

While I don't care about the gender crap (use what ever), I appreciate having a different pronoun for people or conscious things vs objects of any kind. They/them still holds info over it/that.

I admit I am a poisoned well, though. I was taught 'it' is outright disrespectful. Even before I knew LGBTQ+ anything, so it implicitly doesn't apply to people, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Roses are red,

violets are blue.

Singular they

predates singular you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Serial killers refer to people as "it" already. They are the trend setters!