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minus-squareXyrelinkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoDoctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.
minus-square@BmeBenji@lemm.eelinkfedilink8•5 months agoIt does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
minus-squareXyrelinkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoDefinitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.
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Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.