#and other languages too (turkish iirc?) but finnish is the first that springs to mind

[icebluecyanide]

there’s this post going around that’s like ‘what if alien languages had pronouns that didn’t include gender information!’ and there’s about five different enthusiastic replies and like, i get the excitement but i’m begging you to learn about languages other than english

#finnish is right there #and other languages too (turkish iirc?) but finnish is the first that springs to mind #just... the idea that pronouns without gender information are so strange that they can only be conceived of in the context of aliens is wild #gendered pronouns are neither universal nor biological #there are several thousand languages in the world and they're not all just carbon copies of english #linguistics