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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by bitL on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:57AM (#12661634)
You guys should really fix English language. As a non-native speaker whose native language allows properly expressing gender anytime, I find this funny, being downvoted for what is a structural problem of your language :-D
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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by Grishnakh on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:02PM (#12663882)
Does your language allow referring to a person while leaving their gender unspecified? If not, your language is deficient.

All the mainstream European languages I've seen (Germanic and Romance) don't seem to have this capability at all, and it's a big deficiency. Formal English doesn't have it either, but colloquially we've evolved it, using "they" (which of course is bad because it's supposed to be used for referring to people in the plural sense, not singular).

So don't complain about a language having structural problems if yours isn't any better.

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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by bitL on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:19PM (#12663983)
It allows both ungendered and gendered approaches. It's really up to you to choose. So in fact my language is better in this regard, worse in others. Like any language.

I would prefer mentalese over Vangelis' direct to be honest ;-)

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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by int_19h on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:17PM (#12662743)
Thing is, most languages that do that don't just allow properly expressing gender, they require it. And that's not necessarily a good thing.
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Re:Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of mal... by hindsightbias on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:40PM (#12664981)
Regardless of what weird world they live in, nobody refers to a singular woman as a guy or dude in the mainstream.

"guys" became gender neutral sometime in the 70's, Rita Moreno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg

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