Dear Antoine, it is solvable in French and there are some very good practice manual online here is one from Switzerland https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/files/9414/0353/2732/charte_epicene_Chancelerie_guide_formulation_non_sexiste.pdf <https://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/files/9414/0353/2732/charte_epicene_Chancelerie_guide_formulation_non_sexiste.pdf>.
You might all appreciate an English review of these themes from an academic perspective : http://www.fairlanguage.org/medias <http://www.fairlanguage.org/medias> The form you cite underneath "Un/une adminstra-teur-trice » would never be used. One would rather write "un administrateur ou une administratrice » in this case. Kind regards, Nattes à chat > Le 6 avr. 2017 à 13:30, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Le 05/04/2017 à 12:52, Fæ a écrit : >> I'm taking that further by >> proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and >> help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or >> she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all. > > As a non native English speaker the use of a plural form definitely > confuses me or at best. The example takes a sentence from Commons:FAQ > which roughly looks like: > > A photographer has to be given credit when his or her picture is used. > > With the proposal to instead: > > A photographer has to be given credit when their picture is used. > > Why isn't "picture" plural as well? If using masculine as a neutral > pronoum is the issue, just stop using the pronoum entirely. Eg one can > instead write: > > A photographer has to be given credit when the picture is used. > > > That is going to be quite a challenge when ported to other languages. > For 'A photographer', the english indefinite article is gender less. > > In french that would be either 'un' (masculine) or 'une' (feminine). > What some are advocating is using: > > Un/une photographe > > If the noun varies as well, that becomes messy. Here for 'administrateur': > > Un/une adminstra-teur-trice > > That is not solvable in french and all other latin based languages most > probably have the same issue (blame Rome!). > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
