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.

  • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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.

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        3 days ago

        Kinda yeah.

        As in one does not simply walk into Mordor?

        That kinda only works for us in second person. You just leave out the pronoun.

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          3 days ago

          “One” works first person (in place of “I”), second person (in place of “you”) or third person (in place of “he/she/they”). It’s ambiguous, but that’s a feature of a pronoun, not a bug.

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Yeah I am speaking for my language. The issue arises because verbs change depending on gender. So there are almost always 3 different verb forms.