• istanbullu@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    My native language (Türkish) does not have grammatical gender. Gender in grammar is just silly and useless.

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      5 months ago

      That’s part of why I just use They in English for everyone. Less having to learn people’s whatever; I don’t care. You’re cis male he? Don’t care, you’re a they now. More room left in brain. We can fix this shit right now.

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        5 months ago

        We do have a distinction between singular ‘they’ and plural ‘they’. It’s helpful.

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        5 months ago

        You’re cis male he? Don’t care, you’re a they now.

        Now you’re back to not respecting peoples pronouns

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          5 months ago

          I don’t have enough bandwidth to remember everyone’s names, let alone their pronouns. This is the compromise.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      No. Language needs as many possible structures and rules as well as millions of exceptions and oddities so it is really hard to learn.