What's the next big cause?

"DaWaterRat;c-17872565" wrote:

I've seen a few "her/his" in some text strings, "their" as singular they in others. The text strings usually start with the Sim's name and then use pronouns if the string needs to refer to them again later.

Ah, I looked at some sims 2 chance cards and saw the use of pronouns. I admittedly skim over most text notifs and never noticed the details.

English is pretty unique in having a gender-neutral singular pronoun (they). I can only speak on behalf of a few languages, but like I mentioned with Chinese (mandarin) above and some have mentioned with German, the only options are "they," which cannot be used to refer to a singular person and "it," which is used for animals and objects. Many LGBT+ speakers of these languages use neopronouns, and neopronouns are not usually standardized. In English, common neopronouns include ze/hir and xe/xem, but there exists no rule stating that these are THE neopronouns. Obviously in the case of English, things can be kept neat and include only they/them with maybe a few very common neopronouns sprinkled in. But in Chinese, neopronouns usually look like "X也“ or just the written "ta." I read an article about reclaiming "他," the current masculine pronoun, as a gender-neutral one. But its masculine meaning still holds over the gender-neutral one, and this solution would leave the Chinese version with 2 pronouns. I also believe Polish (and I'd imagine quite a few other Slavic languages) lack a singular neutral pronoun and use neopronouns.

Ok, obviously a bit of a convoluted explaination, but I'm trying to say that a lot of languages don't have a gender-neutral singular pronoun and use neopronouns, which are not standardized. This would probably be tricky for the Sims team to navigate. Write-in pronouns are probably possible, but I don't see that coming if we're being honest. :[