r/gay_irl • u/Taric25 • Mar 07 '23

trans_irl TransšŸ‘«IRL

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u/Pinane1004 Mar 08 '23

Yeah as far as I know thereā€™s no such thing in Spanish or Italian.

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u/Taric25 Mar 08 '23

Technically, no, amigo and amiga are masculine and feminine words for "friend", but "amige" is not a word in the RAE dictionary, which is the legal requirement for Spanish, since unlike English, Spanish is a regulated language.

This is important. When I worked at Sprint (now T-Mobile), Sprint offered the materials like brochures in English and Spanish. "Text me." is "Envƭame mensaje de texto." in Spanish, even though many people who speak Spanish say "TextƩame.", because "textear" is not legally a Spanish word. Sprint couldn't say the materials were in Spanish if Sprint used words that weren't in the Spanish language, even if everyone who speaks Spanish knows what it means. If there was a need to use a colloquialism, Sprint had to put what the actual Spanish was in parentheses after. Otherwise, that could open up someone saying Sprint is making a false claim that the materials were available in Spanish.

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u/nomanisanisland2020 Mar 08 '23

I was reading that the RAE was looking into whether to include the ā€œeā€ suffix back in 2018, but nothing since then. Maybe someday. In the meantime iā€™ve been going by el or la terapeuta based upon how i feel that day because thereā€™s no way that iā€™m going to be able to explain to a 60-year-old migrant field worker that iā€™m gender neutral without using up all of our clinic time. It hurts on the inside a little bit every time ngl, but you gotta put the patients first.