It’s a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I’m curious if it’s hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
    173·
    23 days ago

    Non-gendered wording isn’t exclusive to English, it’s mostly other European languages that stick to doing that.

    There are some languages that don’t even have different words for “he” and “she”.

    Edit: made the wording less asshole-y

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      10·
      23 days ago

      Non-gendered wording isn’t exclusive to English. Asia exists.

      I wasn’t trying to imply otherwise.

      Thanks for the insight!

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        42·
        23 days ago

        Chinese is even cooler in that they don’t need different, often irregular versions of the same word for tense and plural either.