I understand that not all languages have gendered pronouns, but am curious if Hexbear's pronoun tags could be repurposed for other gender-equity uses in any other languages

For example, maybe some communities list different word suffixes or just list their gender explicitly?

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Most indo-european languages stick to one gender for all inanimate objects

    German certainly doesn't, neither does French AFAIK. Some things are just randomly male or female

    • silent_water [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      they both started from a system that assigned grammatical categories based on animacy, added a category to split male and female, and usually dropped the inanimate category (or started calling it neuter). why this happened has never made any sense to me.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      yeah, they don't apply these genders consistently at all to further complicate things.