Re:Cameras and Lenses
by echelon on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:11AM
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I'm still going to use they/them because a name doesn't necessarily match with one's gender.
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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.
This is absolutely true, but sooner or later you’ll have to pick a gender or you’ll just end up sounding funny at best.
Not really, that's just the way sentences are formed. The third person has no gender, the gender is only in the pronouns, which are optional. Adjectives will give it away, though.
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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.
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.
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You opened this thread by lecturing others on the pronouns they used for the article author with no standing to do so. Who are you and why are you more authoritative on the author's pronouns than the person you attempted to correct?
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I actually appreciate when people default to neutral when they otherwise don't know. They tend to use he/him if they don't, and that's incorrect.
This unasked for anti-activism is very unhelpful. You are indistinguishable from people who refuse to use correct pronouns even when they know. You do not speak for me.