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if only English had a gender neutral pronoun that could be used by default when the gender of the subject isn't provided :thinking:
by pvillano 5y ago
if only English had a gender neutral pronoun that could be used by default when the gender of the subject isn't provided :thinking:
- johnnyanmac 5y agoI still unironically want a singular variant to rise in popularity, don't particularly care what. There are so many times when "they" comes up and I have no clue if we're talking about a person or a group. There's already enough pronoun ambiguity when talking about single subjects without intoducing a dimension of plurality ambiguity.
- sacrosancty 5y agoIf you think that's bad, you should see how ambiguous the plurality of the gender-neutral 2nd person pronoun is!
- jhugo 5y agoNew Zealand (maybe Australia too?) has a solution for that in informal speech: yous!
- anonymoushn 5y agoIn some geographic areas, we have "you", "y'all" and "all y'all" which correspond to "tú", "vosotros", and "todos vosotros".
- wchar_t 5y agoMany folks I know use "they". Works well enough, I think.
- anonymoushn 5y agoShall we write "they is pretty" or shall we wonder how many people we are talking about?
- npteljes 5y agoWe shall wonder about the how many people. This is called the "singular they" and it has been a feature of English for hundreds of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
- anonymoushn 5y agoYes, I'm sure almost everyone reading this was already aware. This doesn't mean that "they are pretty. they are clever. they are ugly. they are good." is a good localization of "ő csinos. ő okos. ő csúnya. ő jó."
- meetups323 5y agoWe have one, but most people probably shouldn't use it.