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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by fork1 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:12PM (#26351634)
There is such a push in French, works fine with some words, much less with others.

A much more ridiculous one is to change the word endings to reflect gender neutrality. You're supposed to write both endings separated with dots.

"Chers lecteurs", a group plural, so like in all latin languages you default to neutral (ie masculine), becomes "Cher·e·s lecteur·rice·s".

It makes text nearly unreadable.

Spanish equivalent would be : "Querid·o·a·s lector·e·a·s"

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by pseudalopex on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:50PM (#26351941)
Querides lectores would be an option for Spanish.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by fork1 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:25PM (#26352682)
Lectores is still a masculine. And it doesn't work for "Lectores!".
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by pseudalopex on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:43PM (#26352812)
People who advocate that convention don't seem to mind some of the gender neutral plurals are the same as the masculine plurals.
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