Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In some languages (i.e., italian and spanish), “person” is a feminine word (the word itself has ha gender, grammatically). Maybe OP isn’t a native english speaker and they’re just translating literally their thought.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don’t know about you. I haven’t seen anyone on Lemmy using ‘he’ as a ‘gender neutral’ pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.

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    • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I try to notice it but often fail.

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