A Conversation for Gender-Free Pronouns

Turkish

Post 1

kuzushi


I find it odd that there is no mention here of Turkish which has no words for he or she, just it.

So the sentence: "He told her to give him her book" in Turkish becomes "It told it to give it its book."

And Turkish culture is pretty chauvanistic, so that gives the lie to that UNESCO nonsense about language shaping our thoughts.


Turkish

Post 2

Martin Harper

Congratulations, you've found a data point that supports your world view. You can now use that to ignore all data and reports that challenge your world view.

Do you believe in the free market? People who believe the "nonsense" that language shapes thought make lots of money in advertising in the free market.


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