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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Isn't there an attempt to repurpose @ for gender-neutral? Looks awkward, too

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The @ is just a fancy a, so i don't think it's a good idea, generally i don't think it's a good idea to use any letter or symbol that doesn't match at all our languages, it just feel to forced and most of those "solutions" include a group but exclude another big group: people with dyslexia, but also those with dysorthographia at times;

My take is: we ditch one of the 2 genres and we have only one, or we add a thirdy one with a nicer sound than shit like -x, -ə or -u which is kinda hard tbh, maybe we can take a letter from some other alphabet?

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

Digching one of the genders looks better, but it will spark a huge war over which one to exclude (and I can totally understand that, at least from the side of women that are excluded by default in many languages)

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that's the main problem with that idea sadly, the third neutral gender is a good one too but it's hard to pull off something decent...that's the problem with forcing a change on a language .-.

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