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minus-squareShifty McCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 year agoOther languages get around just fine without gendered pronouns. I bet there are other languages that feel like English is missing valuable concepts as well (not necessarily gender-related) , but we don’t miss them since we never had them.
minus-squarePyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoI didn’t say they didn’t, simply that the idea that “Gendered words serve no purpose” is untrue, they are very useful.
minus-squareOnionizer@geddit.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThey have their use, but I’d say in most sentences the gender doesn’t matter at all. “She went to the grocery store.”: Here the gender of that person is as important as any other attribute like the color of their shoes. Imagine we have pronouns based on shoe color, let’s say “de” for someone wearing white shoes. “De went to the grocery store.” And now someone proposes we could ged rid of that pronoun and you say “knowing what shoe color people wear is very useful though!”
Other languages get around just fine without gendered pronouns. I bet there are other languages that feel like English is missing valuable concepts as well (not necessarily gender-related) , but we don’t miss them since we never had them.
I didn’t say they didn’t, simply that the idea that “Gendered words serve no purpose” is untrue, they are very useful.
They have their use, but I’d say in most sentences the gender doesn’t matter at all.
“She went to the grocery store.”: Here the gender of that person is as important as any other attribute like the color of their shoes.
Imagine we have pronouns based on shoe color, let’s say “de” for someone wearing white shoes. “De went to the grocery store.”
And now someone proposes we could ged rid of that pronoun and you say “knowing what shoe color people wear is very useful though!”