Slighty off-topic but I find (as a non-native English speaker) the whole deal with ”he/she” to be super annoying when reading. Especially when the gender is basically not important such as when talking about what the dentist said (or w/e). Is there any trick so to speak to avoid such situations?
Also, in Swedish we have ”he/she/* = han/hon/hen”. Which is soo useful and I am still kind of amazed that the term ”hen” is a relative modern invention. I wonder how in earlier days people referred to other people when the gender was not the main focus. Maybe it was always more important before? Or was perhaps the use of titles (the Dentristess..?) a way to denote gender an important communication tool?
Also, in Swedish we have ”he/she/* = han/hon/hen”. Which is soo useful and I am still kind of amazed that the term ”hen” is a relative modern invention. I wonder how in earlier days people referred to other people when the gender was not the main focus. Maybe it was always more important before? Or was perhaps the use of titles (the Dentristess..?) a way to denote gender an important communication tool?