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> Just out of curiosity, what concept is not expressible in English? My native language doesn't force feed gendered personal pronouns on me, so when other lang
by sampo 12y ago
> Just out of curiosity, what concept is not expressible in English?
My native language doesn't force feed gendered personal pronouns on me, so when other languages (English, Swedish, German etc.) do , I feel they are forcing me to be sexist.
(The Swedes are actually trying to take some steps fixing this aspect of their language, by introducing a gender-neutral pronoun.)
Even worse (i.d. feels even more unnatural) are the languages with gendered nouns (German, Spanish etc.).
- hisham_hm 12y agoInteresting — my native language is Portuguese and it suffers from having gendered nouns. Writing in English to me is an improvement in that sense. I didn't know there are other languages which are even better in that respect. What is your native language?
- sampo 12y agoFinnish. But there are others, like Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Chinese, Estonian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Persian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_genderless_languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_genderless...