• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.

    Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.

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      6 months ago

      “Singular They” has been in use since at least Early Modern English.

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        6 months ago

        "Roses are red

        Violets are blue

        Singular ‘they’ predates

        Singular ‘you’"