IƧΛΛC aka isaacThere was some discussion at work about gender neutral language. I told them I always go by this (old) guide.
Glenn Seto@isaactly_s Spokesfighter ... so like a ghostbuster?
Thanxalotl
Deka Black@isaactly_s Neutral language is WAR?
🇨🇦 CowMan 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇲🇽@DekaBlack @isaactly_s well if you rather be a 'fisherist' or 'fishingyperson' go right ahead, but 'fisherfighter' (or 'fishfighter') is a total win in my books.
@CowMan @isaactly_s Sound badass indeed
Phosphenes@DekaBlack @CowMan @isaactly_s
Definitely. If I was ran a garbage truck I would insist on being called a Garbage Fighter.
Technically true! We conquer your garbage problem.
Deborah Preuss, pcc@CowMan @DekaBlack @isaactly_s we call them "fishers" in Canada, but this has more interesting energy! 😂
@DekaBlack @CowMan @isaactly_s yes, if you are polite to them you don't have to fight them! (I think. Not an expert, just a Canuck 😂).
Jef Verbeeck
Matilda Love@isaactly_s perfect but for one minor mistake: the police are the boot, not the licker
Pine AffinityNo, they also lick the boot of their capitalist overlords. It’s a boot org chart.
@matildalove @isaactly_s
@matildalove @isaactly_s
@Pine_Affinity @isaactly_s it's boots all the way up
./lemon.sh@isaactly_s fishing person, mail person, garbage pe- oh
Frank Going AntiFa - 🇺🇦@isaactly_s
Garbageman should be refuge collection specialist.
Garbageman should be refuge collection specialist.
@isaactly_s If you want gender neutrality, stop speaking Indo-European languages
Ratsnake@xocolatli @isaactly_s you may be surprised to learn that using a language is only viable if the intended audience understands that language
@ratsnakegames @isaactly_s Are you implying that only the language with the largest userbase is relevant?
will have been preventable@virtulis @ratsnakegames @isaactly_s I never claimed to need to speak gender neutrally, but for people who care, there are languages that do not have pervasive gender recognition in their structure ... Surprisingly, many of them aren't fictitious
@xocolatli @ratsnakegames @isaactly_s and English is very much one of them? Other than the pronouns, which I understand most people in fact prefer to have, and job titles, which are so trivial to fix we're literally in a thread for a meme about it.
@virtulis @ratsnakegames @isaactly_s English absolutely isn't gender neutral and never was
By the way, it is also an Indo-European language, like every language in Europe except for Basque, which was of course my point
@xocolatli @ratsnakegames @isaactly_s and yet I don't need to know the gender of your ass to see that you're speaking out of it.
If you are so eager to appear clever on the internet, perhaps try fewer obviously incorrect absolute statements :)
@xocolatli @virtulis @isaactly_s ok so you are saying we shouldn't make minor changes to English in order to remove its gendered elements but instead just all learn Algonqian because that is way easier.
Do you not realize how stupid that sounds?
Also, if you do not care about gender neutral speech, just keep out of conversations about it. Nobody likes a concern troll.
brianna of muffin 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@xocolatli @isaactly_s brave and relevant (this is sarcasm)
stibbons
Purple@xocolatli We should all speak klingon instead!
@PurpleShadow Well, Klingon doesn't appear to have gender in its pronouns, but is that true for all of it... including the as yet to be invented parts?
Abigaïl Maës (Sapphigaïl)
Eric G.@isaactly_s Fooman
Kierkethumbs up convincingly
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Paul Richards@isaactly_s if only “codeman” was in common use, then I could start using the term “codefighter”.
Helge@isaactly_s Who will be BEST FIGHTER at my wedding?
Enola Knezevic@helge @isaactly_s That uncle after 3 drinks
StarkRG@isaactly_s Honestly, "garbagefighter" sounds pretty awesome. Way better than "garbage collector" or whatever. Anyway, that term's been coopted by the software industry.
@StarkRG @isaactly_s "Pickup artists and garbage men should switch names."
lp0 on fire 
@StarkRG @isaactly_s, ”bin man” (or “bin fighter”).
Lou.@isaactly_s I think it should be mailwrangler and garbagewrangler.
Goteer Txuria@isaactly_s Man = Fighterlicker or Lickerfighter?
The Penguin of Evil@isaactly_s The Australian approach of sticking "-ie" on the end of any job (or indeed sometimes it seems anything resembling a noun) has lots of merits.
However Spokesperson clearly should be cycle wheelwright.
ndevenish@isaactly_s Steward/Stewardess -> Stewfighter 🤔
sneedy maccreedy@isaactly_s the aussies have solved this in their own special way:
fireie
postie
fishie
**** (not gender neutral)
spoko
binnie
fireie
postie
fishie
**** (not gender neutral)
spoko
binnie
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦@isaactly_s 🗣THIS IS ART! 😂
DaveyBootlicker is good, "Childfighter" is an option too
LisPi@isaactly_s FishFighter. Holding the line against the horrors from the depths or something?
Maypop the Dragonspiderman = spiderfighter
Peter Kovář@isaactly_s Che cazzo.!?