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Emacs-niv: An Emacs package for replacing “你” with “妳” (female version of YOU)
- chillacy 10y agoIn my attempt to answer the question, why, I learned something interesting: > The creation of gendered pronouns in Chinese was part of the May Fourth Movement to modernize Chinese culture, and specifically an attempt to assert sameness between Chinese and the European languages, which generally have gendered pronouns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns#Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neu... So Chinese used to be gender neutral, then was made somewhat gender un-neutral to match european languages in an age of colonialism. Meanwhile English has been getting more gender neutral, as pronouns like the singular "they" became widespread. So I'm still wondering why this project is trying to introduce gender splits in a language that doesn't already have the baggage that English has.
- caasi 10y agoI think the point of the project is to arise the gender awareness by emphasizing the un-neutrality literally. Since there are gender issues especially in the field of technology, Silicon Valley as an example, female needs more attention. <They work near bay area.> -- <Shey work near bay area.>