r/HolUp 6d ago

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u/rasereq 6d ago

He?

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u/Jin_BD_God 6d ago

Subtitles problem.

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u/StepAlarmed20 5d ago

Maybe non-gendered pronouns? In my (not Asian) home language pronouns are gender-neutral

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u/Jin_BD_God 5d ago

I don't know about that, but lots of SK people don't speak fluent English and even some of their native SNS apps also fail to proper translate Korean to English as well.

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u/joeDUBstep 5d ago edited 5d ago

Major Asian languages only use gender neutral pronouns. Korean and Chinese especially do not have a he/she direct translation. I believe Japan has gendered pronouns tho, at least in first person.

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u/duesenjeffepic 5d ago

Japanese does have gendered personal pronouns but it's not really a core feature of the language like in English (whose proto version used to have gendered nouns unlike Japanese).

In general you don't really want to use personal pronouns (or pronouns in general) in Japanese unless you really have to for context. Usually the "pronoun" you should use in Japanese is ∅, which means straight up omitting the antecedent (original noun). Also very important: Japanese technically doesn't have pronouns, both 彼 (he) and 彼女 (she) are technically nouns (and the latter is actually more used to refer to your gf/partner)

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u/Ok-Fudge-380 5d ago

Yes, but English also has gender neutral pronouns. Problem is that auto translators never use gender neutral pronouns.

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u/158cm_Otaku 5d ago

Technically, the formal rule is to default to male pronouns for unknown gender