There’s definitely some additional nuance (like a pronouns in bio/username situation) but this should cover the broad needs of anyone who is approaching this with good faith.

  • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Most languages don’t have gendered pronouns, actually. It’s really mostly random romance languages, and nearly all of them have a neuter option.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      The thing with the neuter option at least in my langauge is that it is just not used on people. It would be even ruder to refer to someone by the neuter pronoun that to use the wrong gebdered one.

      Technically a neutral one is using 2nd person plural for the formal voice. But even that has to be followed by a gender specific form of a verb.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      oh i thought most languages only had gendered.

      also idk about having a gender neutral option in most. afaik the creation of neutral pronouns in languages that have never had them (other than male being the neutral equivalent) is seen basically the same as neopronouns, which means its very hard for people to start using them.

      for example, i’m from brazil and i have never seen anyone use neutral pronouns seriously. i wouldn’t be surprised if the other languages in the same situation are going through the same thing

      though i guess through jokes people might get used to them and start using them seriously, so things could become better in the future.