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"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

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[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like a thing in Slavic languages in general. In Russian the equivalent is "одушевленные и неодушевленные существительные" - animate, and inanimate objects, so I guess they add one extra pronoun to the usual three, which is just for objects. I think some genderqueer people prefer using the plural pronoun in that case ("они" instead of "оно"). Is that possible in Polish?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The neutral gender is perfectly grammatical in polish, just it was never used for people other than small babies, i seen some effort to use it in literature for gender fluid or genderless people but it's rare and don't get positive reviews. It might catch some day though, i don't know.