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From Bing to Sydney
> Why are people so intent on gendering genderless things?
I heard there are entire languages which do that everywhere...
martythemaniak
on Feb 16, 2023
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I speak one such language. That language includes a "neutral" gender to describe things in non-gendered terms and has neat built-in features like using "they/them" to refer to a person whose gender is unknown.
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I heard there are entire languages which do that everywhere...