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  1. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Yes, they are. Really, there are some things that only native speakers or very well-educated people can grasp completely; I, for example, never know what prepositions to use. (But apart from that, I think my English is quite acceptable!)
  2. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    If you're terrible at languages, I don't see why you'd want to make it more difficult to learn them.
  3. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    Yes; this greatly limits non-native speakers like me. But I guess that's no concern of yours, you little... esotericist! Oh, and by the way... This "sense" you speak of, it is what we call språkörat, the language ear. A true gift!
  4. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    It is much, much easier to have a pronoun for genderless things. Otherwise you'd have to assign a gender to every noun, and that would be a pain.
  5. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    And I didn't literally mean that you "wanted" lazy. You knew that, though, right? Why? I think it makes sense. Why should we have more pronouns than necessary?
  6. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    But that's what makes it so varied and rich!
  7. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    What, lazy? How so? If you want lazy, you should try... oh, say... Chinese. No verb conjugations, and adjectives come with a built-in être? Yes, please!
  8. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    What! No, no, no! English is a wonderful language. It may be lacking in some departments, but it is so rich!
  9. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    I think most people in this thread are aware of this, and are capable of using "one" correctly. It's just that in a lot of cases, it's possible to rewrite a sentence so that "one" can be used instead of a pronoun (although it would probably sound pretty awkward most of the time).
  10. Music Dragon

    Gender Neutral Pronouns

    You mean "correct", not "incorrect", right? Otherwise there's something seriously wrong with me. In Swedish, the word "human" is, in certain contexts, a feminine word (although very few people actually care). So you could argue that "she" could refer to any human being, not necessarily a male...
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