• Nora@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    i don’t know why people forget the word exists when they use it all the time in normal conversation

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      1 year ago

      It’s a great neutral pronoun, but it can sound like you are referring to multiple people depending on how you use it.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.