• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I recently started very casually learning Chinese, this absolutely blew my mind along with the fact that verbs don’t have a billion different forms depending on time and the object of the sentence like all the other languages I know.

    • mcc@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      So there is 他/她, but only in writing so you can be very disrespectful and your conversation partner is none the wiser.