Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same language (2017)

Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by Fradow on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:02AM (#29538522)

First very simple example that comes to mind, the sentence "I'm happy": in English, the speaker's gender is not obvious.

In French, you will say "Je suis content" if you are male, and "Je suis contente" if you are female.

The trailing "e" change the pronunciation: in the male variant, the trailing "t" is silent, while it's not in the female variant because of that "e".

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by SilasX on Monday December 13, 2021 @11:03AM (#29540782)

English kind of has traces of this in eg “I’m an actress/waitress/stewardess” (vs actor/waiter/steward) although gendered role-terms like those are less common and tend to get phased out in favor of gender-neutral ones (“server” replacing waiter/tress and “flight attendant” replacing steward/ess). And I wouldn’t consider it incorrect or out of place for a woman to say “I’m an actor”.

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by pvaldes on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:10PM (#29546490)

Same in Spanish

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