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12-13-2019 12:47 PM |
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Originally Posted by Mrs. Tristan Rosenstock
(Post 2094728)
That's what I'm saying should we stray away from using gendered language towards the bird and does fellow in a sociological sense adhere to masculine gendered language?
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If you use fellow as an adjective it doesn't infer gender. e.g. My fellow co-worker/associate. In that instance co-worker doesn't imply gender, and neither does "fellow."
However when it come to "fellow" used as a noun I don't know case where "fellow" is paired off with a counterpart, like for instance with ladies and gentlemen.
"Bird" is typically British. No one really uses it that I know, except for a very small few and when they do they always have to point out the fact that's what they call females in England.
Since "fella" isn't Spanish and so don't listen to Frownland about applying Spanish grammar rules to English words. If anything "fella" would translate in Spanish to "compañero" or perhaps loosely translates to "amigo."
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