Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu'
sj_zero 2 days ago"does not have to be clearly masculine or feminine, as was the case until 2008, but may also be neutral."
If my child is a boy, I will name him fish. If a girl, Fishwife. If non-binary or it doesn't like the other names, scaly skin.
sj_zero 2 days ago
(just in case people misunderstand and think I'm making a more pointed attack than I really am, I'm just making a reference to the 1880 essay "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain)
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html