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minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47arrow-down4·3 months agoyou must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·3 months agoAs a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoYeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·3 months agoYeah, you use whichever you want and just worry about it less.
minus-squarethatonecoder@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoThe difference between those and English is that they use grammatical gender, but English takes it literally
minus-squaresquaresinger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoGerman works. We have more than enough options for non-genered language.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down9·3 months agoYeah, those languages are awful
you must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.
As a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language
Yeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages
Yeah, you use whichever you want and just worry about it less.
No
The difference between those and English is that they use grammatical gender, but English takes it literally
German works. We have more than enough options for non-genered language.
Yeah, those languages are awful