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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago (36 children)

How aggregious is misgendering items in other languages? I assume it's no big deal and may not even be worth correcting most of the time?

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago (21 children)

In German, they sometimes add the gender into the word. Like if you hire a few "Stripper" in German, they will be all male, while "Stripperinnen" would be all female and there is no generally accepted way if you want a mix or non-binaries, you'd have to describe it. This can lead to quite a lot of confusion, especially with words derived from English like this.

So what I'm saying is, if you use the English word and misgender, it can be a big deal. Like 7 or 8 inches big, on some occasions.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wouldn't it just be Stripper/Stripperen and Stripperin/Stripperinnen?

[–] AttackPanda@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But what would a group of male and females be referred to as I don’t think you can switch to the neutral version of Das Stripper. So maybe the answer is that a mixed group is Stripperen since that would be closest to neutral? Duolingo hasn’t covered mixed gender stripper scenarios.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Plural of Stripper is Stripper. You can say Stripper to any group of them, but in the case of having exclusively female strippers, you can also specify that by using Stripperinnen. It's an option, not a must.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

My guess is the default would be the masculine Stripperen for a mixed group

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