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Is "female" offensive?
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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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I understand your pain. My home language doesn't even have separate words for woman and female, or male and man.
What language, if you don’t mind me asking? I’m interested in linguistics and this seems like an interesting tangent.
not OP but in Polish there is no word for boyfriend or girlfriend, you just say boy or girl which is kinda funny. however because Polish has grammatical gender, you can say boy friend/girl friend and even enby friend, thanks to neoforms! (przyjaciel, przyjaciółka, przyjacioło)
though note that partner is also gendered (partner, partnerka, partnerze)
How do you refer to a female animal?