• superkret
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      3 months ago

      Germans would be like “I can’t even talk about this fungus without analyzing a DNA sample first”.

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      Honestly, just doing that would not only solve certain issues, it would remove some unnecessary complexity from English. In most (maybe all?) Turkic languages we don’t have gendered pronouns, just one for “they” and nothing disastrous has happened yet.