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[imagineGod]

Hey, they started it.

English is such a primitive language. Sadly, we all speak it here.

 

[Steampunkette]

You are wrong about Russian and Slavic languages, in that they are even more gendered than the Romance languages of French, Italian (low Latin), and Spanish.

In Russian, your very name changes it is is traditionally Russian depending on whether you interact with a masculine or feminine in-animate object. Even English names change but less strict than for traditional Russian names. Basically, the name becomes transformed into a masculine or feminine form based on what object it holds.

I'm not saying they're not heavily gendered, ImagineGod. I'm saying that they're not -exclusively- gendered in a masculine and feminine sense. Just as I demonstrated with German's Das, a gender-neutral article.

An example of a gender-neutral Russian word would be животное. Which means Animal. It ends in an e and as such it has neither a masculine or a feminine structure in syntax or grammar.

Latin has -no- gender-neutral options. Even those 400 different deaths all have a masculine or feminine gender. I suppose I should've expressed it as explicitly Binaristic, where slavic languages have a third or neutral gender in their syntax.

 

[Swarmkeeper]

Even a simple sentence like:

"When a citizen helps them, they grow from the experience."

Completely unclear.

Bad sentence structure has nothing to do with pronouns.

 

[Cadence]

Even a simple sentence like:

"When a citizen helps them, they grow from the experience."

Completely unclear.

"The clerk helped the customer. He was not amused."

 

[Yaarel]

English is such a primitive language. Sadly, we all speak it here.

Actually English is an amazing language. A small number of words to communicate effectively, but then a vast number of optional terms to specify technical jargon. Both simple and extremely precise if necessary.

And unlike other languages, English evolved into a nongendered language − so much so, the ancient legacy of gendered pronouns is starting to annoy us.

 

[Yaarel]

Bad sentence structure has nothing to do with pronouns.

Appropriate pronouns have every thing to do with both casual effortless speech and precision of language.

 

[Yaarel]

"The clerk helped the customer. He was not amused."

In this case, grammatically, the customer is the "he".

Because the pronoun defaults to the nearest referent.

 

[Gradine]

At this point, I refuse to believe anybody still arguing this nonsense is using their grammatic pedantry for any other reason than to dehumanize the individuals (such as myself) who have taken it upon them as their pronouns.

There is no good faith argument left that has not been answered. There is nothing left but the cruelty.

 

[Yaarel]

Back to that sentence:

"When the citizen helps them, they grow from the experience."

If unknown, I normally find myself saying.

"When the citizen helps them, one grows from the experience."

And if known but neutral, I find myself saying.

"When the trans citizen helps them, the one grows from the experience."

 

[Steampunkette]

Who, honestly, cares if once in a while the singular "They" causes a momentary foible? It's not as if one question and one answer don't clear it up pretty much instantly. Which happens ALL THE TIME in English and pretty much any other language.

In the Clerk and Customer example, someone actually hearing that who doesn't "Default to the Nearest Referent" will just ask "Who? The Customer or the Clerk?" and get an answer.

It's just another form of concern trolling and hand-wringing.