Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"

Re:Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user fee... by prostoalex on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:42AM (#2757917)

Any past tense verb in Russian is gender-specific. When you use "worked", "did", the suffix must adhere to the subject of the sentence.

Now, Russian has 3 genders, that includes neutral, but neutral is a gender of its own, not a catch-all case for when things are neither masculine nor feminine. So unless the product completely avoids using verbs in past tense, making the language gender-neutral and natural-souding for Slavic group of languages is pretty much impossible.

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Re:Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user fee... by jarek on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @10:25AM (#2759036)

I've seen Polish software use "pracował/a" where male and female forms of "worked" are "pracował" and "pracowała", respectively. It's not terribly elegant, however, and things get progressively hairier as you try to gender-neutralize things like an adjective-noun combination ("new student's" would become "nowego ucznia/nowej uczennicy" at the simplest).

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