u/AgariReikon

Slightly bizzare idea for gendered words

My native language (German) has a ton of gendered words like waiter/waitress in English. And I've been pondering how to refer to my partner in a "genderneutral" way when partner is a gendered word in my language (example: Partner (m), Partnerin (f)).

This brought me to gender inclusive language. Gender inclusive language is used to represent both/all genders in written and spoken language. Studies have shown it makes a big difference in people's minds, so it's common practice to use it.

A short demonstration in English what some German gender inclusive language looks like: wait*ress, act:ress, BatchelorEtte, Steward_ess. And it doesn't just work in written language but also spoken by putting a short pause like so: Steward...Ess.

So I'm considering doing that now with "Partner:in" to refer to my partner in a genderneutral way.

Never seen anyone use gender inclusive language like that, but really why not? Seems like a cool solution to me.

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u/AgariReikon — 2 days ago
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Some plural history

Found this really interesting post about plural history by @sysmedsaresexist on Tumblr. I screenshot the post, but I recommend you look at the original post, so you can check out the links in it aswell.

Edit: I knew I could count on this sub to look at this history compilation critically 🫶 I'm really surprised how many of you are also interested in plural history.

u/AgariReikon — 14 days ago