This is a really interesting situation. I can be gender neutral in English but not in Portuguese.
Male and female are genders while masculine and feminine are adjectives. To me there's nothing about a car that makes it masculine.
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True. The arbitrary nature of the gendering seems like it may serve some other purpose/purposes. Some words swap genders bwt sing. & plur.
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It might have to do with the origin of the word, but it seems arbitrary now. As a native speaker it seems normal until you learn English.
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In writing board game rules it makes sense to use singular they because people not inanimate objects play board games.
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Absolutely! I've seen some confusing sentences in gameplay examples, which can be solved by calling the reader "you" and naming the players.
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