04-08-2024, 04:23 AM
$tevie wrote:
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[quote=Tiangou]
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It is rather odd to attempt gender neutrality in a language where every noun has a gender.
Gender isn't binary. It is when using Spanish nouns.
That's not true.
It was never true.
"Spanish" as a single language that follows rigid white-American-middle-school rules does not exist.
Gendering a language is a mental shortcut. Language is complex.
As is gender.
You are going to have to explain what you mean, instead of just throwing out tidbits that lean towards snottiness.
Waaaaay back when in college, my classmates were already using gender-neutral forms. For example, combining los and las (literally using "los" AND "las" one after the other) to make gender-neutral nouns.
In the current century it's common to modify a noun with an "e" at the end (el/ella->elle) to make a gender-neutral form.
And frankly, I think it's pretty "snotty" to hold the attitude that it's language, itself, that misgenders people.
It's the 21st century.
We've learned a few things. Or should have.