Also thinking about pronouns makes me think about the translatability of pronouns in other languages.

English has a plethora of pronouns: he/she/they being commonly understood by most folks.

Dutch doesn't have a good gender-neutral equivalent of 'they'. So like, if I'm a they, what the heck am I even in Dutch?

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@EGKangaroo idk about dutch but in spanish a common workaround is to use e as an ending instead of the o for masculine or a for feminine

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