Words and gender
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The US vs. UK words are also fun:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-018-1077-9/tables/1
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I know almost all of the men’s words and almost none of the women’s. Of the latter, the only one I’ve ever personally uttered is doula.
@jon-nyc does this take into account non-binary?
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@jon-nyc does this take into account non-binary?
@lufins-dad said in Words and gender:
@jon-nyc does this take into account non-binary?
Non-binary is an oxy-moron. Because dividing people into binary and non-binary just creates a different binary that we’re all part of.
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I know or sort of know 11 of the male words and I know 17 of the female words.
Listing the male words I sort of know or am guessing at:
azimuth - something to do with surfaces or horizons;
aileron - something to do with airplanes;
degauss - something to do with physics;
katana - ancient Japanese sword;
teraflop - something to do with computers;
parsec - something to do with physics. -
The lowest p_female score is on femtosecond.
How can one not know what a femtosecond is?
Granted, it's a more unusual unit prefix than "micro" or "kilo", but you learn those prefixes once and then they can be applied to any unit. And everybody knows what a second is.
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Well I can do that
peplum: Something to do with chick stuff
tulle: Something to do with chick stuff
chignon: Something to do with chick stuff
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