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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Yes, online it is different. It also matters what your first language is. In German the gender of a generic human (the word) is male, a human kid is neutral, animal is neutral, but a dog is male, a cat or cow is female, and a horse or pig is neutral. This continues to non living things: a house is neutral, a table is male, a couch is female. Other languages that have different gender words can be different than German.
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In Estonian all pronouns are neutral, non-gendered. On one hand it makes it easy to speak about someone in third person, on the other hand it can be difficult to understand whom the speaker meant.
Difficult to translate as well, sometimes. I recall a mystery where an important plot point was a kid saying "She did it". It was clear the kid meant a woman. Impossible to convey that meaning in Estonian, where he/she is genderless.