TheLeadenSeaMar 5

Youtube (I know, I know, corporate media, but Peertube doesn't have the content I want) doesn't support my pronoun (or custom pronouns not in their predefined list) 🙄

https://sh.itjust.works/post/56335604

Show threadJännätMar 5
I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesn’t make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since it’s just going to be “hän” regardless of gender
Show threadTheLeadenSeaMar 5
I specifically like it because it’s not gendered though
Show threadPirtatognaMar 6
Half the finns don’t even use “hän”. In day to day conversations it’s frequently replace with “se” which is basically “it”, making no difference between living things and inanimate objects. That is not considered impolite or anything like that. It’s more a dialect thing.
Show threadJännät

I know I’m biased, being a native Finnish speaker and all, but I think it’s kinda delightful that (at least colloquially) we don’t even bother with separating pronouns by animacy.

While speakers of Indo-European languages get so worked up over having a pronoun just for them, we’re like “lol everyone and everything is ‘it’, problem solved, time for beer”

Mar 6 at 2:44pmWeb
Show threadPirtatognaMar 6
As a native finn I agree. So much noise and so many impractical solutions for something that we have for all intents and purposes solved millenia ago.