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Guy labeled "languages where everything is gendered" hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled "non-binary people" runs away

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]M
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    8 months ago

    I guess, but the general convention is to just use "they" if you don't know. Shakespeare did it, and we still do it.

    • theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      Funny enough this isn't true where I come from. In my native dialect, a person of unknown gender is referred to as "he", a fact I vehemently defended before I discovered that I was trans (because being referred to as he hurts less if it's a gender neutral pronoun)

      Boy was that some stuff to unlearn