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Gender neutral guide
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Groomsman = Groomsfighter
Chairman = Chairfighter
Fooman = FooFighter
Excel level autocomplete
woman = wofighter?
Streetman = streetfighter
Idk what's streetman though.
Roadman = Roadfighter
Policeman = Police officer
Fireman = Fire officer
Repairman = Repair officer
Mailman = Mail officer
Fisherman = Fisher officer
I'm just saying nobody ever wrote a song called "Fuck the Fisher Officer..."
Fish officer maybe
Same with Fishfighter, sounds much closer to the truth, and I can't stop imagining a person wrestling with a large tuna or catfish in a shallow water
Streetman = Streetfighter
They can't all be the same class tho.
Firefighter
Policeranger
Mailmage
Fisherbard
And let's assign their race, too.
Human Firefighter
Elf Policeranger
Gnome Mailmage
Half-Orc Fisherbard
Horcfard, the half orc Fisher bard.
Why do you have to bring race into it?!
/s
So the policeranger has an excuse to shoot the rest of them
So the DM knows what bonuses they have. 😌
eh, fishers are more rangers than police.
Some lotta police is more orc (organized, following orders, and if you see a group of them, just turn back)
Firefighter, pig, courier, fisher
I know this is a joke but I will be pendantic and say there is already a gender neutral word for fisherman, which is fishmonger.
It's sad, the few things one can monger.
War, fish, rumors, cheese, fear, and whores, not much else to be a mongerer-of :(
Fisherman - Fishmonger
Mailman - Mailmonger
Policeman - Policemonger
Fireman - Firemonger
I thought a fishmonger was someone who sells fish at market, not the person who catches them.
Is it pedantry if it isn't true though? Or am I being woooooshed?
Fishfighter, not fisherfighter. No idea why, just sounds better.
Otherwise no notes
This is the most boring d&d party. How about:
- firefighter
- policerogue
- mailcleric
- fisherranger
Quick! Mailcleric cast spare the...package! This one's taken a beating!
"I cast Detect Dead... Letter."
“This letter is simply addressed to “Johnny” in red crayon.”
casts deduce address
“10225 Arcadia Drive.”
maleclerk
fisherranger
Favored enemy: bass.
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Gun shooty man = warfighter
A mailman is a letter carrier.
Hackerfighter
Stewardess = Airline Passenger Fighter
There are no such thing as fellow passengers, only foe passengers.
Nah.
Airline Passenger Paladin.
They cast 'banish' and you're out of the plane.
If somebody told me this was how German worked I would believe it so I wonder if the reverse is true
This does not work in German because fighter (Kämpfer) is gendered as male. There's is female version of it though (Kämpferin). We have Feuerwehrmann and Feuerwehrfrau. Correct gendering in German is (I say that as an older a male) a bit complicated and makes the sentences usually mich longer or sound weird.
There was a joke solution to this that I really liked: add a "y" to the end or all gendered words: Feuerwehry, Frisöry, Mitarbeity, Erziehery, Arzty etc.
Monster or Ungeheuer would work too. Feuerwehrmonster.
Degendering ala Phettberg may have started as a humours way toward gender neutral language, but it evolved IMHO into a serious way next to *, :, Innen.
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In frontend development, it's pretty common to use German to stress test UIs, as it's a commonly used language with a lot of long words. It reveals all sorts of UI issues - text that doesn't wrap properly, buttons that are pushed off the screen, etc.
I don't know German, but I do like the idea of using compound nouns rather than inventing new words.
It's also common to test UIs with Arabic, to test handling of right-to-left languages. At work we have a "fake RTL" language that's English but rendered RTL. It's interesting because everything is flipped - for example, a left-hand sidebar is instead on the right side in RTL languages. Company logo is at top right instead of top left.
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wofighter
Excel be like
Garbageman = Garbagefighter
Lineman = Linefighter
Airman = Airfighter
Seaman = Seafighter
Axeman = Axefighter
Repairman = Repair fighter
Handyman = handyfighter
Woman -> Wofighter
Mailman = fighterfighter
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Man was gender neutral in old English https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/522859/ddg#522870
Its a concept called generic masculine.
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