German
See also: Gender-neutrality in languages with grammatical gender#GermanThe gender-neutral impersonal pronoun "man", used similarly to the English pronoun "one", is widely used in both written and spoken German.
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“She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The German mind, may it live! Almost invisible as a mind, it finally manifests itself assertively as a conviction.”
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