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by t0astbread 2238 days ago
I'm not sure I totally understand what you're trying to communicate but I didn't say we need to invent gender neutral terms for every German word. I said formal German is moving away from describing people using words that only exist as either masculine or feminine. So depending on where you sample your data it's not unusual to encounter these speech patterns. (Of course, if an ML algorithm can pick that up is a different question.)

And (this is an opinion now) I don't think that's "disgusting". Agreed, it's kinda clunky to always mention both variants but stereotypes are subtle and this is one thing we can do that's not too invasive. Of course this isn't an ideal solution either because gender non-conformity exists and the German language has no good way of addressing a lot of that. (But there are deeper cultural problems there.)

Also, I'm not sure what you mean with "Krankenbruder" but it sounds like something from /r/ich_iel.