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[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shakespear rolling in his grave because even he used singular they...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't get it , I'm French btw

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Instead of "s/he is" you can say "they are", even though it's singular. "They" is the preferred pronoun for any situation where gender is unclear or (usually, but not always) for non binary people.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry I brutaly translated this from French where we say" iel " (contraction of "Elle" and "il" our feminine and masculine pronoun). I already saw they but I didn't thought about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's all good! The fact that you want to be inclusive is great. They have a contraction for nonbinary pronouns in french? that's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's a neopronoun, so while it's popular enough for most people to understand what it means, in my experience "iel" sadly gets a lot of pushback ("oh but we don't do that in French" etc.) which means it's rarely used in contexts other than to refer to non-binary people who have expressed a preference for "iel".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah that sounds familiar