it's a lose-lose situation: native speakers of language 2 will look at what you wrote and cringe or just assume you're ignorant. they won't get the point you're trying to make, null, nada, 0% chance. source: i'm a native speaker of language 2.
Yep. "Greek is gendered, the gender is embedded into the words". Sure, but I can speak whole normal sentences without referring to gender at all, something like "went to the supermarket and bought x y z, then did a, b and c and came back".
You can talk about someone at length without mentioning their gender once.
If you think someone having a Slavic last name means their gender necessarily matches the gender suggested by the form of their name, you are just mistaken.
I have a Slavic last name. I also have female relatives whose last name is, quite officially, the male-suffixed version of mine. I invite you to guess how that might have happened.
Does culture tell you if someone's gender, sexual preferences, what kind of car they drive, whether or not they're a furry, what god(s) they do or do not believe in, etc.?
Don't put people in boxes based on your limited world view.
Think about the limit. When we're uploaded to the matrix, you'll finally be able to be whatever gender you want to be without fear for the stupid stigmas of this world. You can try lots of things. You can be a man, woman, multi-gender foxperson, or a stoic agender deity. Maybe lots of things. You'll be free.
I'm still going to use they/them because a name doesn't necessarily match with one's gender.
language 1 extracts gender to a separate word.
language 2 embeds gender in the word itself.
names are words.
it's a lose-lose situation: native speakers of language 2 will look at what you wrote and cringe or just assume you're ignorant. they won't get the point you're trying to make, null, nada, 0% chance. source: i'm a native speaker of language 2.
Yep. "Greek is gendered, the gender is embedded into the words". Sure, but I can speak whole normal sentences without referring to gender at all, something like "went to the supermarket and bought x y z, then did a, b and c and came back".
You can talk about someone at length without mentioning their gender once.
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Sorry to hear that you hold other cultures in such low regard.
If you keep posting flamewar comments to HN we will have to ban you, so please don't do that. We're trying for something else here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you think someone having a Slavic last name means their gender necessarily matches the gender suggested by the form of their name, you are just mistaken.
I have a Slavic last name. I also have female relatives whose last name is, quite officially, the male-suffixed version of mine. I invite you to guess how that might have happened.
Culture and gender aren't linked.
Does culture tell you if someone's gender, sexual preferences, what kind of car they drive, whether or not they're a furry, what god(s) they do or do not believe in, etc.?
Don't put people in boxes based on your limited world view.
Think about the limit. When we're uploaded to the matrix, you'll finally be able to be whatever gender you want to be without fear for the stupid stigmas of this world. You can try lots of things. You can be a man, woman, multi-gender foxperson, or a stoic agender deity. Maybe lots of things. You'll be free.
Let people be who they are.
You be who you are.
Just be happy.
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