• Axolotl@feddit.it
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    22 hours ago

    The @ is just a fancy a, so i don’t think it’s a good idea, generally i don’t think it’s a good idea to use any letter or symbol that doesn’t match at all our languages, it just feel to forced and most of those “solutions” include a group but exclude another big group: people with dyslexia, but also those with dysorthographia at times;

    My take is: we ditch one of the 2 genres and we have only one, or we add a thirdy one with a nicer sound than shit like -x, -ə or -u which is kinda hard tbh, maybe we can take a letter from some other alphabet?

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      5 hours ago

      Digching one of the genders looks better, but it will spark a huge war over which one to exclude (and I can totally understand that, at least from the side of women that are excluded by default in many languages)

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s the main problem with that idea sadly, the third neutral gender is a good one too but it’s hard to pull off something decent…that’s the problem with forcing a change on a language .-.