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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by bmn__ on Monday April 07, 2025 @12:21PM (#43613156)
You are in a bubble if you think that "everybody has […] settled on they".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179524

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Re:Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March by pjc50 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @04:24AM (#43619486)
> All natural languages I know are gendered the same way English is.

Finnish has always been gender-neutral: https://finland.fi/han/article/

Chinese and Japanese also do not have grammatical gender. Chinese imported gendered pronouns about a century ago for ease of translating Western gendered languages, but both languages tend to either refer to people by name or have no word at all and infer from sentence structure.

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