Timeline for What is the rationale behind the movement trying to eliminate gendered articles for names?
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| Aug 11, 2021 at 6:16 | comment | added | HalvarF | Now you lost me. Why would it show that a generic masc. exists? | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 22:47 | comment | added | user unknown | All das belegt nicht, dass ein generisches Maskulinum existiert. | |
| Aug 9, 2021 at 5:39 | comment | added | HalvarF | @userunknown It was in some form already a part of Shakespeare's English, was gone and has been back since the 1990s according to blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/677177 | |
| Aug 9, 2021 at 2:28 | comment | added | user unknown | @HalvarF: Seit wann denn? Das ist ja ebenfalls ein politisch motivierter Ersatz - was sprechen denn einfache Leute auf der Straße? [books.google.de/…. Leider endet der freie Ausschnitt mitten im Gedanken. | |
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| Aug 8, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | HalvarF | @userunknown English has singular 'they' for that: "Someone has forgotten their keyring." | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 16:15 | comment | added | user unknown | AFAIK English isn't gender neutral in that regard: "Someone has forgotten his keyring" uses a generic masculinum, too. But since it doesn't adress men only, there is no need for intervention. You have to put wrong assumptions to the language, to make such claims. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | HalvarF | @mbsq: This becomes really opinion-based, and for me, I don't agree that the sexual binary is an obsession in that sense. It is a very basic fact of life that there are two genders in mammals with very different roles in reproduction, and to transcend that basic principle and recognize a spectrum of genders in actual individuals is a sign of an advanced civilization's respect to indiviuals, which is good, but it doesn't change the basic fact, and to change a language based on something like that would look Orwellian to me. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | mbsq | … has been built…. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 13:56 | comment | added | mbsq | Would it be conceivable that from some deeper critical perspective, grammatical gender is itself problematic even though it seems politically “neutral” from the native speaker’s viewpoint? One might imagine an argument that an obsession with the sexual binary has infected human thought so deeply that the entire language has been bukt to conform to it…. | |
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| Aug 8, 2021 at 10:53 | history | answered | HalvarF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |