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> A “non-binary” “gender” is just a noise with no idea attached to it.

Are you talking about grammar here? Because in many (most?) languages gender is not binary.



I was replying to something. Just read the comment I was replying to. Also, yes, many languages have more than two genders. That’s a non-binary gender system. But no particular word in those languages is “non-binary”.


Words can certainly change gender over time or be non-gendered if that is what you mean. But it doesn't make any sense to say that a word is non-binary in a trinary gender system like in Latin.




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