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It just.. doesn't mean that in English. It doesn't sound right, like in the examples in this article.
by ajkjk 7y ago
It just.. doesn't mean that in English. It doesn't sound right, like in the examples in this article.
- ernst_klim 7y agoDoesn't mean what? Generic he doesn't exist in English? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Generic_he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Generic_h...
- ajkjk 7y agoYou know perfectly well what I meant. It is never genderless. The quote from the article makes that obvious: "At the funeral, everyone was dressed to the nines, each wearing his swankest tie or nicest dress." When it's used generically, it is still casting all the antecedents to males.
- Pfhreak 7y agoIt's out of fashion in a lot of places in English. I'm not saying it's gone entirely, but there are definitely places or communities where generic he would sound very awkward.