Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
I have heard people in discussions getting upset when a speakers says "you don't do that" and they take it personally.
The way to avoid it is to use the gender neutral "One" As in 'One doesn't so that', but if you use it in normal speech people think you are trying to be 'posh'.
In German they use the word "Mann" as gender neutral.
The word 'Mann' is not gender neutral. It's masculine and means 'man'.
'Man' however, translates our our 'one' that you refer to.
Isn't that the second time that you given out duff gen about the German language?