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Curious that most of the comments here are attacking the choice of language instead of engaging with any of the actual reasons this is happening.
by minikites 5y ago
Curious that most of the comments here are attacking the choice of language instead of engaging with any of the actual reasons this is happening.
- techbrobane 5y agoThe top voted comment is some guy saying that he knows a few romance languages and he isn't bothered by gendered pronouns. That's the depth of HN.
- noutella 5y agoLanguage is our main tool for expressing ideas. IMO that means language choices can help include more people in the conversation, or (more often than not) act as a diferenciation factor between the "enlightened ones" (woke ones ?) and the rest. Given people stay respectful, I think that's fair to criticize languages choices and the barrier they create. "Freedom is Slavery"