This whole pronoun thing never really got a foothold in NL, so I know very little about it.
When does it come up? “You” is always the same, and for the third person usually the name is used. Unless the conversation is very long and would get too repetitive.
Maybe it’s an English language thing? “Gender” has a much stronger linguistic function in most other indo-European languages.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@useless_idiot it has reached 100% insane levels in german now with radio moderators speaking(!) the _ gender gap, like in "Idiot_Innen". there also are multiple different variants using _ or : or * or 🍆, not a single thing.
it's really the awful german language by now.
@useless_idiot
it's really tiring to see everyone jumping upon this train here, not because it has an actual effect but for fear of the cancel mob and virtue signalling.
awful german language was a joke about the pamphlet by mark twain :)
Maybe the wish to conform is stronger in serious big Germany than in silly little NL?
@useless_idiot judging from the current protests in NL and that we never have these things here, yes :)
@bonifartius
Ok! Well, gender is much more important in German than in Dutch, so it seems to have little or nothing to do with language.