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[–] PugJesus 93 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.

Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Latin is like German in this regard, minus the exceptions, which make up around half the cases in German.

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