On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:
gender neutral plural form "Sch�ler"
there had been a strong arguement on deb-l10n-de for this. personally, I also tend to rather omit females
I do not want to "omit" females - I just want to keep my mother tongue clean from rubish like that. Once the first women got a better job *because* people used this "-innen" nonsense I'll think about it.
anyway, concerning the public sector, there has been some adaption in language that marks that us a there are women as well in active politcs.
Using a generic gender is like language works. I wished people on deb-l10n-de would understand this.
the corresponding thread had several 100 postings, I don't want to have such thread right here.
You can be assured (and all people who posted to the thread you mentioned above - probably mostly men as usual) that I will not spend my time with this funy stuff - I'll prefer to save this time to talk nicely to my wife. For interested people I have stored a log from a very interesting discussion about nearly 10 years ago on tex-d-l list ... :)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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