Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 7 days agoImplicit bias ruleslrpnk.netimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1777arrow-down19
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minus-squareBmeBenji@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 days agoIt does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
minus-squareXyre@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoDefinitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.