Anglos will sometimes use 'they' if they don't know if a SINGULAR person is male or female. It feels like gender neutrality shit, but according to Wikipedia, this issue is actually old as tits.
I did some quick research: >Spanish Opinion from Latin America was that there is a ridiculous movement towards gender neutrality, but it's mostly rejected by the audience >Polish Generic masculine is used >Russian Generic masculine is used
Tell me what you think, everyone's welcome, Anglos, Spanish speakers, Slavs, other languages too. Except Canadians.
I think it's weird because I was always taught that they is plural.
Austin Torres
In early modern english masculine was used often in such cases. In old english there was hit for singular neuter, he for masculine, heo for feminine and hie for plural, but it was never really an issue in old english because there were noun genders so the gender of the pronoun would just match the gender for the noun (which was often confusing as the gender for all the words for woman was masculine in old english, weird).
Asher Wilson
As we don't have a neutral gender in portuguese, up until now when we didn't know the gender of someone or something the gender defaulted to male. But in recent years feminists are really getting triggered by that. I honestly don't give two shits if they decide to create a new neutral gender.
Jayden Morris
Generic masculine here
Jordan Long
Finnish doesn't have this problem.
Jason Gomez
On the internet I refer to everyone as him/he unless it's on a site where it's a female who uses their name and a picture of themselves
Cameron Butler
I use they like that all the time, not only if I don't know if someone is male or female. It's rare for people to be confused and I doubt anyone thinks that I'm doing it to be "gender neutral".
Sebastian Thompson
I think it's stupid because every proposal they've given for a gender neutral word is stupid >Amiges or amigxs instead of amigos >Todes or todxs instead of todos
