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
Jason Phillips
do you pronounce the x as ks or h
Levi Wright
>current year >not using animacy Also fuck you, im inviting myself Same
yeah even before all this sjw shit ive used they instead of him/her, usually when talking with someone like my parents and I dont want them to know the gender of the person im talking about
Tyler Carter
This (I'm French), I've talked to several persons here who would use "they" to talk about somebody in particular, and when I told them it was ridiculous and they should say "he" by default they said I was an ignorant. Oh how I hate Amerimutts
Luis Bennett
Giving myself a (you) because I deserve it for such an informative post. Good job, pal.
Levi Wilson
Anglos used to say "he" by default until the mid 20th century. It was an early victory for the mind-your-pronoun crowd. Now it just seems like a natural part of the language. In time everything will be like this. People just get used to shit.
Jacob Johnson
Generic masculine in French.
Austin Baker
Some mentally-ill people trying to push the "inclusive" shit though, meaning a word would be both masculine and feminine at the same time It's amazingly retarded
Joseph Adams
Ks
Jayden Lewis
rude
Ryder Jenkins
I don’t see any issue with it. If someone wants to be referred to by something else that’s fine by me.
Jaxson Myers
>pronouns hurt muh fee fees! MUH FEE FEES
Fuck off back to Jow Forums.
Isaac Cooper
uwu sowwy senpai xD
Lucas Sanders
In the Netherlands we use - it - to refer to genderless stuff.
Just like in English really. ( het or 't )
Blake Price
Because the Dutch language has three word genders. Male, female and neither.
The man, the woman, it child.
Cooper Diaz
They're trying this shit here, using @ as if it was both an o and an a at the same time. Most of our gendered words shift gender by changing o with a.
Benjamin Brown
Nice reversed accusation
Leo Sanchez
>tehas >mehico
Dylan Jenkins
Nice reversed cuckusation
Angel Anderson
i'll use they even if i know the gender
Hudson Smith
Lol, it's even worse here They don't change the letter but they say like "e.ée.s"
Blake Collins
de man, de vrouw, 't kind
Brayden Morales
english used to have a neuter gender, they sounds better. In Irish we use masc single.
Levi Butler
Yeah it's not a matter of gender it's a matter of countable/not countable iirc
Jeremiah Price
there's no singular they in polish i fear
Juan Parker
>Poland is so poor they can't afford a full set of pronouns
Way more gay to not distinguish between genders I believe
Adam Baker
Almost everyone provided for nice answers, can you toothpasteniggers tell me how does it work in Dutch too?
Nolan Robinson
We do have neuter. Do you use neuter about people?
Daniel Mitchell
funfact, originally the X represented the sound SH on spanish but it evoled in the KH so we write it with J except for names of places like Mexico or Texas
