• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Lol please do it, it’d be funny.

    I mean, Russia is being worse to LGBT people compared to China’s treatment of LGBT people, so I guess its a slight improvement?

    But then, the firewall is much superior to russia’s, so its gonna get harder to bypass censorship.

    But good news, they gets free re-education to learn Social Harmony, and love peace, and love Xinnie the Pooh!

    Also, no more pronoun issues. Pronouns are always 他/他 (pronounced tā), gendered pronouns are a thing of the past. (Chinese language does not really use gendered pronouns)

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      5 days ago

      (Chinese language does not really use gendered pronouns)

      他(male) and 她(female), no?

      And also 它 for animal/object

      Or at least that’s what i learn when i’m in school, not sure if anything change.

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        4 days ago

        If you write 他 to refer to a woman on a test essay, you’d still get marked correct.

        Writing 她 to refer to a man would be incorrect.

        Basically

        他 = He OR She

        她 = She

        它 = It (refer to objects and non-human animals)

        他 is what gets used all the time to refer to both genders. 她 is rarely used, unless maybe in an English class to teach the difference between the English pronouns He and She.

        Also, they are all pronounced the same: (tā)

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        5 days ago

        You are correct. 他 for he, and 她 for she. However since they all sound the same, they’re only distinguished in writing.

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          It’s not that they sound the same; they are the same and are just written differently. It was all 他 until in the 20th (I think) century they created 她 and 它 and made 他 for males only to make the language more European.

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      4 days ago

      No idea why it boils down to treatment of LGBT, as if that is the only group that is consistently fucked with.

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      5 days ago

      They might not use genered pronouns, but they do a lot of referring to people as uncle/auntie/big sister/little brother and the like.