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Just a funny aside if you allow me: gender pronouns are imho a great example of how seemingly trivial design choices can have a ripple effect on systems behavio
by pwm 7y ago
Just a funny aside if you allow me: gender pronouns are imho a great example of how seemingly trivial design choices can have a ripple effect on systems behaviour. What I mean by that is my mother tongue have no such concept as gender pronouns! It's not a thing. This whole problem that people spend enormous amounts of energy discussing on various social platforms like twitter simply does not exist. I find this rather amusing.
- lostjohnny 7y agothat's spot on. I had the same conversation trying to explain that in Italian there are "male" things that have "female" names and vice versa. For example "car" (automobile in Italian) or bulldozer (ruspa in Italian) are feminine nouns. If you lookup those words in an Italian dictionary you'll find ruspa [rù-spa] s.f. that s.f. means singular feminine. We don't associate the fact the bulldozer has a feminine name with the notion that women are bulldozers. At least, I don't!