Programmer Humor

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

This is not true anymore as we have all moved to de-gender our language according to the teachings of the late Hermes Phettberg by which gender-specific endings are replaced by the letter Y.

So, i.e. the German word for a person operating a bakery is now "Bäcky" instead of "Bäcker" (m) and "Bäckerin" (f).

The difference between those and English is that they use grammatical gender, but English takes it literally

Yeah not relevant to english tho as there actually is a solution for the problem unlike other languages

German works. We have more than enough options for non-genered language.

In Finnish it's just one pronoun: hän

Singular they

As in "just ask them to review your PR".

It's not new either. It's been in use since the 14th century.

Singular they has been used since Shakespearian times to refer to people of unknown gender. You've probably used it yourself.

Ri for singular, ili for plural. 🏳️‍🟩‍⭐‍🟩