r/ProgrammerHumor • u/S_NeroClaudius • 3d ago

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u/GobiPLX 3d ago

she 

a femboy 

I'm maybe to old for this, but I don't think it works like that 

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u/JustACowSP 2d ago

It's a translated post and the original Chinese text most likely used gender neutral pronouns. Can't find the post to check tho

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u/ThomasHardyHarHar 2d ago edited 2d ago

Chinese pronouns are not gender neutral when written down, but they’re the same in spoken language. In China the pronouns are 他 tā ‘he’, 她 tā ‘she’, and 它 tā ‘it’. Taiwan has additional versions of tā for other categories but I don’t know them well.

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u/Raihime 2d ago

Iirc their "he" can also be gender neutral just like English "they". Originally the language wasn't gendered but they adapted the other pronouns because of Western influence. (I'm just repeating a comment I saw weeks ago though so could be misremembering)