• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    5 months ago

    Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.

    Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Alright so I’ve always thought the past was always shitty, but this. God damn am I proud of this. Some social things that were much more lax back then should have stayed that way.

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

      That’s not what that is.
      It’s just that Latin had more complicated grammar regarding pronouns.
      They still only had 3 grammatical (and societal) genders: he, she and it.