@kitten also every noun is gendered and stuff like occupations use different words depending on gender, like actor/actress in english
There are a few differnt approaches to deal with this, a common one is to turn nouns into a prticiple form e.g. "Studenten/Studentinnen" becomes "Studierende". This doesn't work for everything. Another approach is to use a * or _ like Student*innen, which can be harder to use in spoken word but works almost everywhere. The last one is pretty cool but it hasn't found widespread use yet, it's to put a y at the end of the root of the word, "Student/Studentin" becomes "Studenty"
@kitten (is it obvious that it got confronted with/started thinking about this stuff in university, considering that it's using "(university) student" as an example word?)
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