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minus-squareNora@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoi don’t know why people forget the word exists when they use it all the time in normal conversation
minus-squareipkpjersi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·11 months agoIt’s a great neutral pronoun, but it can sound like you are referring to multiple people depending on how you use it.
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoYeah we need a dedicated genderless singular third-person pronoun. The only thing that comes to mind is “it” but that tends to dehumanize people.
minus-squareNora@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI wish we could just manually change english. Forget all gendered pronouns because they shouldn’t even need to specify. Just animate/inanimate singular/plural.
i don’t know why people forget the word exists when they use it all the time in normal conversation
It’s a great neutral pronoun, but it can sound like you are referring to multiple people depending on how you use it.
Yeah we need a dedicated genderless singular third-person pronoun.
The only thing that comes to mind is “it” but that tends to dehumanize people.
I wish we could just manually change english. Forget all gendered pronouns because they shouldn’t even need to specify. Just animate/inanimate singular/plural.