InfidelProductionz: I am getting a new gaming pc soon and was wondering that if it was downloaded on this pc, would i have to buy it again to download on my next pc?
timppu: Are you male or female? What should we call you: he, she, it?
I know we could refer to you as "they", but that would imply you have a multiple personality disorder, ie. that you are a wacko.
Frankly, we wouldn't have this problem if everyone spoke Finnish. In the Finnish language there is a gender-neutral "hän", which refers both to males and females, and anything in between.
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They" is, in fact, the correct English way to refer to any arbitrary person without specifying gender. "It" implies that they're not a person at all.
In Sweden we have, for some godforsaken reason, chosen to adopt -and misspell, of course- the Finnish "hän" (spelled "hen" - the normal gendered words being "han" for "he" and "hon" for "she"). I'd wager that it's an unintentional adoption of the Finnish word though, and likely just a result due to the only difference between our gendered words being a different vowel, so whoever started it just replaced it with a third vowel to make the ungendered word (and with the vowel they chose, it became a female bird in English instead of the meaning they intended in Finnish).