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chaotic good? ladybird? the browser by devs that refuse to use your pronouns?
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Lmao, a weird choice of a hill to die on. Although, given I've seen ppl refer to a user account as "he" exactly 0 times before that, I suspect the dev may speak smth like French natively, where everything is either male or female.
That said, i'd rather use "it" instead of "they", given an account (and anon one at that) is not a person.
I'm fairly certain the main dev is swedish
Huh, checked out their noun genders, and those are quite interesting: 2 genders, but common and neuter instead of masculine and feminine. So out goes that theory
Imagine explaining gendering to a person used to ise a language where it isnβt existing π€ of course, it seems unnecessary for that person
Or have I understood that wrong?
Hungarian language for example is completly genderless. 2 pronouns are used: Ε (person, more intelligent animals), ez/az (depending on the first letter) (objects, less intelligent animals)
π€―this is awesome
Not exactly. In English, stuff that's not a person is of neutral gender, i.e. just "it" (unless the speaker has an affection towards it, then it's usually a "she"). In other languages stuff also has "genders", like "la chambre" (the French* for "a room") is a "she".
So, my initial guess was that the dev natively speaks some language, where a user is a "he", and ppl don't have a concept of a neutral gender. But in case of Swedish ~~there are 2 variants of "it" for things~~ [edit: there's "it" and "they"], so it seems incorrect.
* I'm using French instead of, for example, Russian here due to it not having a neutral gender, while Russian has "it" and something akin to "they" (like "Π·Π°Π΄ΠΈΡΠ°", the Russian for a bully). Although, I may be wrong here, since I've started learning French quite recently, and may've missed smth.
Thank you very much for explaining π I understand it now.