Oh, some people talk like that, but don't ask what kind of people or OP will be upset.
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Cypher@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The ban is a bit over the top but your choice of female instead of woman is strange. No one talks like that.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 9 months ago
GONADS125@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Incels that probably belong in cells…
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“a bit”? This is totally out of control, and the mod should lose all privleges, to being a mod.
the other part is a person whom speaks english as a second language. Its not always a clear translation, particularly with English since the language is bastardised from many languages, and many “grammar rules” can be broken, by our own design.
As a mod you should be amenable to that.
Cypher@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oddly enough ESL speakers don’t make this mistake as often as native English speakers in my experience.
I say “a bit” because frankly reddit is not known for having reasonable mods.
I am a mod only because I started the Warhammer community but sadly I haven’t had the time to grow it and have failed to attract active users or volunteer mods.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 months ago
the other part is a person whom speaks english as a second language. Its not always a clear translation, particularly with English since the language is bastardised from many languages, and many “grammar rules” can be broken, by our own design.
It isn’t even incorrect English. If you look up female as a noun, in the dictionary it says:
female noun:
- An animal that can lay eggs or give birth to babies; a plant that can produce fruit
- (formal) a woman or a girl
As for why English has two words for it, it comes down to its mixed roots: female has a Latin root and came into the English language via French. It’s ultimately derived from femina, which is Latin for woman. The word woman comes from the proto-Germanic wiban, which originally means wive, which itself coincidentally has the same proto-Germanic root.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, and this was my point.
Take a word such as “Immutable” - and item or object that is incapable of change. Coming from the word “Mutable” which is the opposite - something that can be changed.
These words are from the Latin “mutare” which means “to change”.
So if you can see the irony of this is that the word immutable should not exist, and for completeness, neither should commute or transmute!
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Maybe not everyone is a native English speaker who can sense the difference in nuance between words which are essentially synonyms.
noahkamara@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
Never heard a non-native speaker say „female“ When you learn the language that’s a term you’ll learn after man and woman because it’s usually only used in scientific or academic context
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Also law enforcement typically uses it for the same reason. It’s more encompassing (the term female includes women and girls) but it also sounds formal and depersonalizing, and the depersonalizing bit is why it can sound creepy.
But again, it’s a nuance that not everybody may pick up on. I don’t like to assume malice when something can be adequately explained by ignorance.
I’m a non-native speaker myself by the way, and I didn’t pick up on this nuance until the incel thing came about a few years ago and people started to get upset about them deliberately using the term “females” as a dehumanizing way to describe women.
GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Lol you’ve kept transcripts? You’re awfully confident about something of which you cannot possibly BE confident.