Ah, thanks. Right, the mess of gendered nouns. I'm glad we (mostly) don't have to deal with those in Swedish and English. Hope you guys can find a good solution for it.
And, ooh, I just found out that dropping the ending off of the third person pronoun is a thing -- very elegant in a way, it has precedent in one of the dialects. Hmm.
Neat! Looking up Latvian pronouns, that seems logical. Some people here have tried to do that with the generic pronoun ("one" or "you" in English), which is "man" in Swedish but "en" ("one") in some dialects. Sadly it hasn't caught on the way the third gender did. Possibly because half the population of Stockholm are former hicks who have spent years trying to get rid of their dialect.
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Date: 2019-02-03 09:28 pm (UTC)And, ooh, I just found out that dropping the ending off of the third person pronoun is a thing -- very elegant in a way, it has precedent in one of the dialects. Hmm.
Neat! Looking up Latvian pronouns, that seems logical. Some people here have tried to do that with the generic pronoun ("one" or "you" in English), which is "man" in Swedish but "en" ("one") in some dialects. Sadly it hasn't caught on the way the third gender did. Possibly because half the population of Stockholm are former hicks who have spent years trying to get rid of their dialect.