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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by ggrrhh_ta on Monday December 13, 2021 @08:28AM (#29539377)
The most obvious English case would be "beautiful/handsome".

I am handsome.

I am beautiful.

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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by WillPostForFood on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:30AM (#29539873)
Those words are differentiated on the object, not the gender of the speaker.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by ggrrhh_ta on Monday December 13, 2021 @09:48AM (#29540027)
I was trying to give an example similar to obrigado/obrigada in English.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by WillPostForFood on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:59AM (#29540736)
OK, but neither are examples of language being different based on the speaker, they are both based on gender of the object, whether is is contextually yourself, or another.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by kingcharles on Monday December 13, 2021 @03:39PM (#29544327)
Handsome being a male adjective is a recent development though. Read some 19th century novels and the women are routinely described as handsome.

I told my girlfriend she was handsome the other day and she objected strenuously.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/355908/why-is-ha...

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