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i was not talking about linguistics, i am searching for a word that refers to a third sex or gender. can you name one?
by eonw 11y ago
i was not talking about linguistics, i am searching for a word that refers to a third sex or gender. can you name one?
- yellowapple 11y agoThe parent's point was that many languages incorporate a "neuter" gender that is neither masculine nor feminine, and therefore have a greater assortment of things like pronouns and verb conjugations to account for this. English no longer has such a system (having moved from grammatical to natural gendering during the transition from Old to Modern English), and so has lost most of the corresponding vocabulary, but related languages (like German and Latin) have retained such vocabulary and grammar. However, there's still at least one gender-neutral third-person pronoun: "it" (AFAIK, all modern English first-person and second-person pronouns are neuter). There's also a proposed "xe" that represents a true third gender (or a neuter gender, depending on who you ask), but its adoption isn't exactly widespread.
- eonw 11y agointeresting points, thank you.
- sullyj3 11y agoOff the top of my head, "intersex", "genderfluid", "non-binary".