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I'm eternally grateful that it doesn't have grammatical gender and that we call everyone "it". Spares us from some of the nonsense getting imported from the Sta

• hedora 4y ago
  In the US, doing that is considered derogatory. "I saw your girlfriend. It was buying something at the corner store." Is approximately as bad as "The bitch was at the corner store." Because "it" is reserved for animals and inanimate objects. If you have an obvious accent, people will generally understand the "it" was a grammatical error.