• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 days ago

    Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.

    Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      I kinda love the conjugation and declensions in Latin, it’s a language where once you learn the rules you know exactly how that word fits. You can almost throw sentence structure out the window. I find that neat, it must’ve been a fun language for poets.