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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by rendaw on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:37AM (#29550929)
I think GP was talking about honorific/humble o not the object marker o, and chose a poor metaphor. Because honorific/humble o is often a signal for feminine language... there was a trending tiktok video about prefixing "toilet" with "o" for example.
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Re:Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same languag... by earthboundkid on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:25PM (#29560800)
If I meant the direct object postposition, I would write “-wo” not “o-”.

The problem with o- is that both men and women use it, but women use it slightly more, and getting that right is hard for a non-native.

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