• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    As a native speaker of one of the above, I’m sometimes confused when people online use “he” for a generic duck or cat or other animals that are female in my native language

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      19 hours ago

      I believe in English you would use it if you don’t know an animal’s gender. But it’s not my first language either so