• Nora@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      i don’t know why people forget the word exists when they use it all the time in normal conversation

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
        22·
        1 year ago

        It’s a great neutral pronoun, but it can sound like you are referring to multiple people depending on how you use it.

        • Gork@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah we need a dedicated genderless singular third-person pronoun.

          The only thing that comes to mind is “it” but that tends to dehumanize people.

          • Nora@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            I wish we could just manually change english. Forget all gendered pronouns because they shouldn’t even need to specify. Just animate/inanimate singular/plural.