jungle

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[โ€“] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep. I'm a native Spanish speaker and I'm also old. Spanish is similar to German in that the male version of words is already gender neutral. But there's a huge effort to make it truly gender neutral, and I understand the reason and support the idea. Having lived many years in an English speaking country and in corporate environments, I use "they" in English without even thinking. It comes naturally to me, especially as a manager talking about people I manage, to protect their identity.

But there's no way in hell I'm using gender neutral Spanish because it sounds extremely stupid to me. It's a complete distortion of the language, and I have to make a huge effort not to think less of people who use it. None of my friends or family uses it.

[โ€“] jungle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, good to know. I was wondering why Cory would be giving conspiracy theorists any attention. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that a conspiracy spreading or a conspiracy skeptic podcast?