People insisting on "Tony" vs "Toni" and "Danny" vs "Dani" and so on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Kind of yes, kind of no. It’s interesting how firmly tied grammatical and human gender have become in European language cultures, when it’s something of an accident of history based on the importance of latin.
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Replying to @bazzalisk @arthur_affect
Hence Japanese names not mapping to this schema at all
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk
Japan does not have grammatical gender in this sense, it's one of the features that's mostly (but not completely) associated with descent from proto-Indo-European
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Which is very different from saying Japan doesn't have the *social* concept of gender, which it absolutely obviously does But that's why stuff isn't a one-to-one mapping to get languages
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Like Japanese doesn't have the equivalent of "he vs she", all pronouns are gender neutral (except recent ones invented specifically to translate "he/she" from Western texts) The "gendered first-person pronouns" people like to talk about are technically registers of politeness
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So it's a second-order thing, "watashi" is a "feminine" word for "I" because it's *polite*, and women are expected to be polite to a greater degree than men A man calling himself "watashi" isn't acting girly so much as he is acting formal and deferential
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk
Right, it was annoying when I was studying Japanese to learn as a woman I basically get one self pronoun for everything That said, I meant how Japanese personal names frequently follow opposite of Latinate endings. Like women whose names end in -o and men with -a
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk
You can be a bokukko if you want to be the spunky tough girl from an anime
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Though AIUI pretty damned rare IRL except amongst butch lesbians, and even then probably only in safe spaces.
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Yeah that's kind of what I mean, it's one of the ways anime leads you astray by being a very heightened version of real life language
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