i mean, let’s open that can of worms. i’ve been using dude gender neutral my entire life. my wife is a dude. i’m enby though, so i might be projecting a bit i will admit.
i mean, i know someone who got their phd in linguistics making a graph of “how do people pronounce [i forget what the word was] here” in the US [edit and Canada i forgot they went up to Medicine Hat for part of the study]. someone else with “do you call it soda, pop, or soda pop (shut up atlanta you coke fiends you don’t count)”. maybe they were masters degrees and their phds were something else i forget this was decades ago. i don’t know enough of the prereqs, but “is dude masculine or gender neutral” would be a fun study and maybe pay for me to go back to college for a decade. (because i would need to learn more than hobby linguistics)
i mean, let’s open that can of worms. i’ve been using dude gender neutral my entire life. my wife is a dude. i’m enby though, so i might be projecting a bit i will admit.
Alright, that’s fair I guess. I can see it be gender neutral, I’m just used to it referring to guys. Plus, I like the way dudette sounds.
i mean, i know someone who got their phd in linguistics making a graph of “how do people pronounce [i forget what the word was] here” in the US [edit and Canada i forgot they went up to Medicine Hat for part of the study]. someone else with “do you call it soda, pop, or soda pop (shut up atlanta you coke fiends you don’t count)”. maybe they were masters degrees and their phds were something else i forget this was decades ago. i don’t know enough of the prereqs, but “is dude masculine or gender neutral” would be a fun study and maybe pay for me to go back to college for a decade. (because i would need to learn more than hobby linguistics)