177
A resemblance often neglected
(lemmy.ml)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
177 points (90.4% liked)
Memes
45440 readers
516 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Also Finns. We have perfectly gender neutral pronouns but we prefer to use "it" instead
Pronouns in German is weird. sie and Sie have different meaning depending on the form of verb and capitalization. I kinda like the French way of speaking - je, tu, il, elle, nous, vous, ils, elles.
In Dutch "they/them" is "zij". Which is very annoying, because "she" is also "zij".
Which means the Dutch genderless pronoun has mostly become "hen", which is "them" in the dative (3rd) case, which is only rarely used otherwise, and thus available.
Made me remember the "je, tu, il, elle, nous-vous-ils-elles" french educational song ha
Unless we're talking about pets, funny enough.