What About Other Languages?

What About Other Languages?

 

When I talked about Word’s Editor function pointing out places where it “thought” I wasn’t being inclusive, a lot of the suggestions it made were gender-based. Words like manpower or man-sized or maiden name sent up red flags.

I thought about this as I was working my way through my Duolingo exercises. I’ve been studying German in anticipation of a December trip along the Danube. In German (as well as many other languages), nouns have genders. In German, they’re eith...