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I don't see any young people choosing to learn a language which has such problems with gender - when a learner has to deal with this in the first lesson. Assum
by learnstats2 6y ago
I don't see any young people choosing to learn a language which has such problems with gender - when a learner has to deal with this in the first lesson.
Assuming male as the default seems to me to be increasingly evolving out of natural languages. Agreeing a reform among Esperanto-speakers seems impossible, given that many are attached to its historical roots.
- anticensor 6y agoIt is obvious Zamenhof artificially selected the vocabulary to equate grammatical and natural genders. This artificial selection also applied to all words being positive by default: to say bad, you need to say ungood instead.
- learnstats2 6y agoYes - "implicit assocation tests" for cognitive bias work on exactly this principle: identifying when 'male' follows the same process as 'good'.