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Are you referring to something other than a female chicken?
by codpiece 2y ago
Are you referring to something other than a female chicken?
- 0_____0 2y agoswedish neuter pronoun
- codpiece 2y agoThank you!
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoThis reminds me of something Jimmy Carr said. Oh! gender neutral elder, oh! gender neutral elder, what’s a joke? YOU ARE!
- isoprophlex 2y ago"They" would have been a lot less confusing here...
- laserlight 2y agoI'm baffled by why one would use a Swedish pronoun in an English text. We live in a strange world.
- Philpax 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swenglish Not uncommon for Swedish-first speakers - just accidental language bleed, as is the case with most other second language speakers. (As for "strange world" - have you looked at the etymology of most English words? :p)
- darkstar_16 2y agoI'd guess its similar to Danish and hen meant "he" here, Han in Danish
- pcthrowaway 2y agoIs this a new neo-pronoun I'm not familiar with yet?
- dagw 2y agoIt was first coined in the 60s and has been floating around since, but it's really only seen regular use in the past decade or so.
- Symbiote 2y agoIt probably should be "when I turned 10".
- cma 2y ago"The summer he turned 10 was spent mowing lawns around his small town."
- brulard 2y agoWell, thats how I imagined it. A hen mowing lawns and spending at once. Still impressive for a hen