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linguoboy wrote:Could the Gender field in the user information be replaced with something less ideological and more directly useful, namely "Preferred Pronouns"? The only reason I really need to know what gender someone identifies as is in order to choose whether to refer back to them as "she" or "he"
Lauren wrote:Well, yes, it would be pretty easy to replace the "Gender" field with a Preferred Pronouns field. But then again, you don't need to know someone's pronouns, you can simply use "they" if they haven't told you. That goes for IRL as well as on the forums.
Levike wrote:Is it an important piece of information
vijayjohn wrote:Levike wrote:Is it an important piece of information
Yes.
Levike wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Levike wrote:Is it an important piece of information
Yes.
You're here to talk about languages. Why do you want to know that about the person you're talking to?
Why do you care if I'm a boy or a girl or whatever?
Osias wrote:For a language forum, this thread is a lot English-centric.
But other words are affected, like nouns, adjectives, etc. And the name for this is... gender.loqu wrote:Osias wrote:For a language forum, this thread is a lot English-centric.
The 'preferred pronouns' initiative can be applicable for Spanish as well, or I'd say for every gendered language.
Osias wrote:But other words are affected, like nouns, adjectives, etc. And the name for this is... gender.loqu wrote:Osias wrote:For a language forum, this thread is a lot English-centric.
The 'preferred pronouns' initiative can be applicable for Spanish as well, or I'd say for every gendered language.
linguoboy wrote:If someone says they prefer "she/ela", why would you assume anything but feminine agreement for nouns and adjectives? But it doesn't work the other way, at least not in English, since there are more than two possibilities.
Osias wrote:linguoboy wrote:If someone says they prefer "she/ela", why would you assume anything but feminine agreement for nouns and adjectives? But it doesn't work the other way, at least not in English, since there are more than two possibilities.
Maybe "prefered grammatical gender"?
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