California city to ban gendered language like ‘manhole’ and ‘manpower’
submitted 4 years ago by HeyImSancho from (fox59.com)
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[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago* (2 children)
Is this movement catching on in languages that have grammatical gender?.
Edit: for an example
Example: Spanish
The English word "the" = Spanish "el" or "la" depending upon the arbitrary gender assigned to the noun.
Also, the last vowel in a noun typically indicates the nouns gender...
Example: Roberto vs. Roberta.
Note: a couple of nouns are genderless, but these are exceptions.
[–]HeyImSancho[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun - 4 years ago (1 child)
Tom, LMAO! Your thought hit me like a ton of bricks! Espanol is entirely that. HAHAHAHA, Great point!
[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun - 4 years ago (0 children)
Up vote bro! +3.
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