- 他 is the 3sg. male pronoun.
- 她 is the 3sg. female pronoun.
- 牠 is the 3sg. animal pronoun.
- 祂 is the 3sg. deity pronoun.
- 它 is the 3sg. inanimate pronoun.
This is the page I'll dump all the other topics and writings I make about topics that are too small to warrant a full page; linguistics (and conlanging), other board games, miscellaneous code and whatever else will spring to mind! There'll be subjective writing from here on out. This page will also probably load a lot slower; there will be rare Unicode characters needing to be rendered properly with somewhat heavy (storage-wise) fonts.
X July 2022
I've recently been fascinated by the Tangut language; I'll stick what I've found and read here with my thoughts.
What first caught my eye was seeing Noto Serif Tangut when browsing Google Fonts for potential fonts to use on this site. They looked like Chinese characters but not! I would learn after some Googling that Tangut is the name of a dead language with a superficially similar script to Chinese, though formed with much different principles and being entirely logographic in origin.
29 June 2022
In traditional Chinese characters, there is a distinction in written text between 他、她、牠、祂、它。They are all third person, singular pronouns.
They are all pronounced the same: ㄊㄚ /tʰa˥/. This artificial addition of 他/她 in the 20th century bugs the hell out of me. A gendered orthographic distinction is annoying and pointless. This applies to 你/妳, too. Argh.