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
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 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
Yeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages
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, 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?
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