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I don't speak French, and am curious about this example. If you have 50 women in a room, do you use the female plural pronoun? In other words, are you saying
by sulam 9y ago
I don't speak French, and am curious about this example.
If you have 50 women in a room, do you use the female plural pronoun?
In other words, are you saying that all it takes is one man in the room to make it male plural? Honestly (and I'm no gender theorist) this seems fairly sexist too. It's essentially saying psychologically that the man in the room takes precedence over any number of women.
- feborges 9y agoYes, in Portuguese (my native language) it is the same. For instance, "amigos" means "friends" with at least one male (the example of 50 women in a room and 1 man). "amigas" would be "friends" with only women/females. There is in Brazilian Portuguese (probably in other pt speaking countries as well) a movement of people pushing for the usage of letter-tokens to turn gender-specific words into gender-neutral. In this case, they would use "amigxs" or "amig@s".