Comment on What does "grammatical gender" mean here?
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 4 weeks ago
It won’t do much in english, but makes a lot of sense for french, spanish and other languages using heavily gendered nouns.
In english, “the user” is neutral. In french, you have “l’utilisateur” and “l’utilisatrice”, because everything including nouns are gendered. So you’re stuck misgendering half the population by default. This lets you address women as women and men as men.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thats pretty cool! It’d be nice if there were a neutral option to but more choice is good! 😊
Una@europe.pub 4 weeks ago
I think there is, you can choose neutral feminine and masculine
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not sure I understand french well enough to follow what you mean- is the feminine gendered version also gender neutral?
Una@europe.pub 4 weeks ago
No, I meant in developer options you can select between masculine feminine and neutral gender
Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It is the default setting. I’m not aware of any app that uses the setting though. (It’s quite rare that apps use the third person for the user and almost nobody is going to find the setting in the dev options anyways.)