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It's alright (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Esperanto still has those weird -in- and -iĉ- suffixes. They aren't a grammatical gender system, but... come on.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I kind of like them but I just wish the "base" was neuter e.g. avo would be grandparent, then avino could stay grandmother and something else could be grandfather. Overall I think the modularity is neat

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

i.e. optional suffixes to highlight social gender, but the default was neuter? I'd like it better than the current system, but I think that the suffixes aren't even necessary - if you need to specify the gender, you can simply plop some additional word and call it a day.

That's a piece of criticism in retrospect though. Social awareness of gender issues was way lower in Zamenhof's times than now, not really blaming him.