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@DrRyanSkelton @Tamamo @hellhammer666 Portiguese does the same. We don't even have a neutral "they/them", even pronouns refering to groups of people are gendered, and the default/neutral options are the same as the masculine ones, with the feminine pronouns being an "exception".
And this makes some feminists and troons seethe very hard, I remember teachers in school complaining about "how absurd it was" that if there was a group of 10 women and one men you have to refer to them using the same pronouns as if they were all men.
Some deranged leftists are trying to force some "gender neutral pronouns" bullshit, but they are relentlessly mocked by everyone with more than 2 braincells. There is a guy who is a candidate for mayor in the biggest city of the country and he was expected to win by a landslide, and his ratings TANKED after he was associated with this, pools show he will barely make 3rd place.
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@MeBigbrain @Suzu @DrRyanSkelton @Tamamo @hellhammer666
I did a deep dive in historical and modern dictionaries after someone on our side of the Fedi unironically said, "The singular 'they' has valid uses."
What I found is that up until the 1950's, there was no singular "they", whatsoever. It was only some time after the Feminist Revolution of the 60's when the singular "they" became used. I doubt that it was widespread in the 90's, when it appears in Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary, but the Internet certainly ruined the English tongue and allowed miscreants and bad actors to proliferate this evil mutation in the language.
If you do not know a person's sex, you default to the masculine until you learn otherwise.
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@Suzu @DrRyanSkelton @Tamamo @hellhammer666 Modern English doesn't have a neutral "they/them," it's forced bullshit. I and every normal person hear "they/them" and assume it's a plurality.
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