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But aren't we talking about form fields? When would you absolutely need a gendered title from someone in a form field so that you could refer to them in the thi

But aren't we talking about form fields? When would you absolutely need a gendered title from someone in a form field so that you could refer to them in the third person? In any case, I understand your point about there not being many options for gendered pronouns in some languages, but you're also assuming that there aren't movements to change that. French is a good example where even though its heavily gendered, things are evolving to the point that Le Robert even includes 'iel' as a pronom personnel [1]. Sure its use is contentious, but so are gendered pronouns even in English are still contentious for some people, but it exists and people do use it. [1] https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/iel https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/iel

PeterisP 3y ago
> In any case, I understand your point about there not being many options for gendered pronouns in some languages, No, I explicitly did not mention pronouns, my post was about all the language groups where merely changing pronouns is barely scratching the surface as core grammar features rely on grammatical gender. Like, no offense intended, but French is not an example of a "heavily gendered language" - I'd consider French on the very low end of the grammatical gender complexity scale, where indeed suggestions such as yours might be plausible. For example, consider Hebrew or Slavic languages which have verbs and adjectives denoting the gender of the subject/object. Consider grammatical gender in Hindi or Welsh. And I'm not even talking about more complicated systems like you might see in Bantu languages.