@Biff @GalacticTurtle @HebrideanHecate @blingring Wouldn’t work in China.
Written forms are different but he/his is ta/ta de, and she/hers is ta/ ta de.
(The history of that is fascinating - initially there was no written difference either, but western missionaries in the 19th century insisted there had to be a way of translating the Bible which would maintain the difference between he and she, something that various what we would now call feminist writers in China strongly resisted!)