• 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.