Sven A. Schmidt@inthehands @phranck There’s also that since German is a “gendered” language we grow up thinking of literally everything having a gender. House, car, tree etc. We even assign (and sometimes disagree about 😆) gender for English words used in German. Classic: die Email.
It’s a hard thing to unlearn. When we see “teacher” we tend to think of a male person, because -er is the male suffix in German.
They/them is beautiful and so much simpler than our workarounds dealing with this in German.
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