Turkish. In Turkish they do not distinguish between he and she. Also in Russian, male noun means male pronoun even if a woman
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Replying to @doctorwhy @o_guest and
In Turkish we don't have gendered nouns yes but nongendered doesn't imply male. We simply don't assume gender when referring to people.
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Replying to @zerdeve @doctorwhy and
Ah, thanks for clarifying! I was going to ask my brother but you cleared it up already!
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So is default = male in Turkish?
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Replying to @o_guest @doctorwhy and
Nope default is unknown and uncared for. Lol.
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I might ask him anyway just because it's interesting. Also I like imish or WTV tense for things that you're not sure about but somebody told
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you? I dunno if that's right but we use imish in Cyprus like this...
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Replying to @o_guest @doctorwhy and
Yes it's a very useful tense. We're suspicious folks
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Replying to @zerdeve @doctorwhy and
I love imish. Greek people will never understand.
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"he told me he's a world famous scientist imish"
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