Grammatical gender is rather arbitrary in these languages. But as you can see, in French a chair does not have a sex, but it does have a gender....
That's not what I mean. I mean that you don't change the form a word that refers to them (like their profession) based on those characteristics.
I'm pretty sure language doesn't care about biological sex of a person, but rather their gender. This is much better visible in languages other...
I've given this a great deal of thought because my current WIP novel's characters come from a progressive future society, so their language should...
Thank you all for the advice. Now that I have gotten to this scene, I decided to go in a different direction after I realized one of the...
Hey, finally a thread where my amateur ass actually has some insight, since I'm trans myself. Obviously, I can't speak for all trans people, but...
@RMBROWN Thank you, this is very nice.
Sorry, I should've explained it a bit better. What I meant is the interrogator asks a question, one character answers it, then he asks another...
I'm now rapidly approaching a scene where my three main characters are going to be interrogated by another party one by one (to make sure their...
Hello everybody! I wanted to create an account here only to find out my username was already taken. So I had a hunch and yeah, turns out I already...
I do read them, but it's been some time since I read any a I didn't read that many of them. And I also didn't think thare was that much difference...
w176 - Yeah, that may be the problem - I don't read short stories that much. Thank you all. You have been very helpful.
Well, that's the problem - my ideas for stories usually feel meaningless without some broader context. And I just can't go back to any of the...
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