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You don't have an impersonal pronoun? The one thing about English that is a mess are our pronouns. In Italian you can just use "si" and be done with it. I then
by sdferdfs 7y ago
You don't have an impersonal pronoun?
The one thing about English that is a mess are our pronouns. In Italian you can just use "si" and be done with it. I then am not declaring me, you, s/he, we, they, one, ect. I'm explicitly not declaring the pronoun.
Spanish has that too, and I'm pretty sure French does too. The closest English has is "one" which doesn't really work as well.
- ghaff 7y agoWe do. But "it" carries a strong implication of not only gender-neutral but inhuman. A lot of people won't even use "it" for a pet. And there's even a fairly strong tradition of actually using feminine pronouns for, e.g. ships.