Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing

• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s cute when someone with a first language like that carries it over to English. “The coffee maker… he is broken 😞” I’m so sad for him!

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  • FerretyFever0@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never thought of that, but personalizing objects is kind of cute, I agree.

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• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I remember when I was trying to learn German, one sentence the app gave got burned into my brain forever:

  Der Tisch hat kein Geschlecht.

  I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the point of the table not having a gender; you just called him a man.

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• Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.

  The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.

  In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word “Magd” (a cognate of “maid”).

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