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  • Axolotl@feddit.ittoProgrammer Humor@programming.devapplogies
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    4 天前

    First of all: you should feel ashamed about yourself because you just started using insults in a civil conversation.

    It’s not bullshit, it’s just reality, if i am used for all my life to say “i poliziotti hanno fatto un ottimo lavoro a risolvere la questione” (Masculine plural, used in language to refer to a group of people in which at least two different genders are present.) Translation: Police have done a good job to resolve the situation i am also gonna use “sei un poliziotto talentuoso” (Masculine singular) Translation: You are a talented police officer {The bold-italic indicate what gives the gender and if it’s plural or singular} For talking in a text chat with someone i don’t know the gender.

    You see that if i am a Italian speaker i am gonna use masculine simply because i am used it since…well since i know how to speak and it’s a hard change since in Italian you would have to change a bit more than in english your way of speaking.

    Here a good source to understand better how it works in italian:

    1- mascluine and feminine

    2 - articles: how they define gender and amount

    From your comments i can suppose you speak only english/english is your main language or you only speak languages that have the neutral pronouns








  • Axolotl@feddit.ittoProgrammer Humor@programming.devapplogies
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    5 天前

    Yeah…but then what should i do? Many people have as a mother tongue a language that is gendered (the case for many langs in europe and south america since they come from latin) and usually male is used as standard when you don’t know the interlocutor gender or is used to describe a group that has 2 or more genders.

    Saying something like

    People who assume default maleness should be locked up anyway

    Is just wrong because you are just blaming innocent people for doing something they have been doing all their lives for reasons beyond their control.