Talk:Off Colors (group)/@comment-24985387-20170602221115/@comment-31509668-20170607011551

The only time gems refer to themselves with female pronouns is when they are speaking English. English is a language that does not have a gender neutral third person singular pronoun. In the Japanese dub of the show this isn't a problem. The gem native language wouldn't even have gender specific pronouns since they wouldn't know what gender was.

It is very unlikely that anyone is speaking our English in Steven's world. The show is dubbed in the languages of the markets in which it's aired so we in the United States hear them speaking English. But then you'll hear English in American airings of Pokemon and those characters are speaking Japanese.

English is a language that came about as a result of the many wars and conquests that took place across Europe. Those wars wouldn't have taken place on a gem controlled Earth because the gems wouldn't have permitted it. They would have interfered with their colonizing operations. Therefore English would not have evolved on Steven's Earth. Likely they're speaking some version of the gem language that evolved after gems were driven from the planet. That would explain how Lars can talk to the Off Colors. Neither group would have had the opportunity to learn the other's language so the language Lars is speaking must be close enough to the gem language for the Off Colors to understand him.