Tangled Up In Lace

Gender-neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

clairedactyl:

I’ve been thinking about this subject quite a bit lately while I’ve been working on refreshing my Spanish skills. In English, it’s really not that hard to make a sentence gender-neutral. But in many other languages, there seems to be (from my perspective, anyway) a lot more emphasis on gendering people/things. I’ve been making it a point in my life lately to avoid making assumptions about a person’s gender, so the very gender-specific nature of Spanish has been bothering me more than it ever did before. I am a total nerd for linguistics (I mean, I did study it for 4 years), so I really want to educate myself on this.

If anybodyhas any resources for information on gender-neutrality in languages other than English, I would really appreciate them.

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Notes

  1. aimsme reblogged this from sexysexyshannon and added:
    If there is stuff like this for French/Russian/Czech out there, I need it in my life.
  2. lexiconcarne reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    In a Spanish queer ‘zine I saw the use of -x instead of -o/-a. Here’s a link to the zine: http://www.unabuenabarba.com/
  3. filipinafemme reblogged this from tangledupinlace
  4. inwhichabbey reblogged this from clairedactyl and added:
    While I don’t have any specific resources, I can...the Finnish language. During my stay...
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  6. zerianquestionssleep reblogged this from tangledupinlace
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  8. merboi-swag reblogged this from somethingfornothings and added:
    I’ve seen it in spanish writing, ending words like “amigo” with an “@” so it has an a and an o. So it’s “amig@”. *shrug”
  9. subtlecluster reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    So, I’m a native Spanish-speaker and don’t have a particular answer, sadly. BUT I can share that some folks, to try to...
  10. sexysexyshannon reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    Oh my god I was thinking about this last night. GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!
  11. somethingfornothings reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    been having similar thoughts. any spanish-speaking gender neutral folks have thoughts on this?
  12. asasparrow reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    My first ever sociology paper was titled “Language and Gender Identity: Expressing Diversity in a Binary System.” I...
  13. misellalandica reblogged this from tangledupinlace and added:
    I’m studying Spanish right now, and I’ve been asking myself the same questions. I don’t know much about German, but I...
  14. tangledupinlace reblogged this from clairedactyl
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