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    Just something I made (lemmy.ca)
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    [โ€“] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Not exactly. In English, stuff that's not a person is of neutral gender, i.e. just "it" (unless the speaker has an affection towards it, then it's usually a "she"). In other languages stuff also has "genders", like "la chambre" (the French* for "a room") is a "she".

    So, my initial guess was that the dev natively speaks some language, where a user is a "he", and ppl don't have a concept of a neutral gender. But in case of Swedish ~~there are 2 variants of "it" for things~~ [edit: there's "it" and "they"], so it seems incorrect.

    * I'm using French instead of, for example, Russian here due to it not having a neutral gender, while Russian has "it" and something akin to "they" (like "ะทะฐะดะธั€ะฐ", the Russian for a bully). Although, I may be wrong here, since I've started learning French quite recently, and may've missed smth.

    [โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Thank you very much for explaining ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I understand it now.