• TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    I don’t understand how a German grammar situation would elicit the response from the PR. Are gender neutral pronouns “political” in Germany? Why did the dev say “personal politics” specifically?

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
      3·
      3 months ago

      Are gender neutral pronouns “political” in Germany?

      Yeah, (like in french) male pronouns ARE the gender neutral option, and using they/them would be like using xim/xer in english

      • TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        So doesn’t that still mean that they think gender-neutral pronouns are political, i.e. they don’t accept them? I’ve also noticed the dev in question is Swedish, so I’m not sure where German language quirks came from?

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
          2·
          3 months ago

          Well, yeah, but in gendered languages every common noun has a gender, and gender neutral pronouns are very very new, especially 3 years ago, so even most people in those lgbtq communities use male pronouns as gender neutral.

          Tldr: yeah, but its like the tiniest deal ever

          Edit: wanted to add that in gendeeed languages using gender neutral instead of male pronouns when referring to the user in the app would be wierd