I absolutely loathe the LGTM acronym - but for some reason it’s becoming mainstream at multiple companies.
I love it. Easy way to say - I don’t really care about reviewing this, I gave it a 30 seconds look and clicked approved
Wire up PR notifications to Slack, so everyone can mute that channel.
I hate how accurate this is because I have done both of these things.
Andrew Callahan delivering pizzas to bears in his new video I see
I find it annoying when ‘he’ is used as a default pronoun for an entity of unknown gender.
Fun fact: 3rd person is literally just a letter in turkish: O
In Finnish it’s just one pronoun: hän
you must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.
The difference between those and English is that they use grammatical gender, but English takes it literally
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
I believe in English you would use it if you don’t know an animal’s gender. But it’s not my first language either so
This is not true anymore as we have all moved to de-gender our language according to the teachings of the late Hermes Phettberg by which gender-specific endings are replaced by the letter Y.
So, i.e. the German word for a person operating a bakery is now “Bäcky” instead of “Bäcker” (m) and “Bäckerin” (f).
I'm totally serious about this
not 🤪
Damn I had no idea who this guy was. What a legend.
Yeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages
Yeah, those languages are awful
we’re talking about a fucking bear.
of course he’s a man.
What, you think momma bear would ignore someone who needs help?
What’s your preferred default pronoun? As far as I’m aware, there isn’t a universally accepted replacement, since any pronoun comes with drawbacks. ‘he’ & ‘she’ are gendered, ‘it’ typically refers to non-sentient things, and ‘they’ can cause confusion about number. Of course, there’s also neopronouns, but people have come up with a billion, and there’s no consensus or standard, so I can’t confirm the person I’m talking to will understand.
Singular they has been used since Shakespearian times to refer to people of unknown gender. You’ve probably used it yourself.
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