There's some irony in that "gender" used to refer to the grammatical categories only. In a sense, the word gender "became gendered"!
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How has it worked in languages that lack gender-specific pronouns?
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Mandarin Chinese is doing ok.
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2 I'm suspicious of this assumption. (see picture) Is language a given or is it adapted to the best use of the now qua ecosystem. We are adding and removing pronouns, but slowly... ?pic.twitter.com/5VUgSEss9h
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1 But is it reasonable to lump everyone in to the Masculine? Mr. Actor, for instance. We might have to change every word that is found to be gender biased.
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