I would like to see 'falsehoods programmers believe about names,' but for pronouns

-- freya raccooncat :freya_heart:

I've seen software that pulls pronouns from bios so someone replying won't have to check the profile, and that's always completely broken for our system

-- freya raccooncat :freya_heart:

@xenon
- every person uses only one pronoun set
- every person uses only one pronoun set at a time
- every person uses only one pronoun set per sentence
- every person uses the same pronoun set or sets from day to day
- every person uses the same pronoun set or sets from hour to hour
- every person uses pronouns
- every account is used by one and only one person
- every account is used by one person at a time

@xenon

- every person uses the same pronoun set for everyone they talk to

- pronouns are the only way in which language is gendered
- pronouns are the only way in which English is gendered
- which pronouns someone uses correlates directly with which other gendered words they use
- everyone can agree on which words are gendered
- each person uses one of two pronoun sets
- each person uses one of four pronoun sets
- there are a finite number of pronoun sets which can be enumerated completely

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@packbat @xenon "pronouns can be neatly bundled up into sets"
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