I am not a native English speaker and I have sometimes referred to people as male and female (as that is what I have been taught) but I have received some backlash in some cases, especially for the word “female”, is there some negative thought in the word which I am unaware of?

I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, if it’s not appropriate I have no problem to delete it ^^

  • JoBo@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Honestly, anyone who can speak a second language has a better grasp of what a noun and an adjective are than yer average English speaker. They’re just at risk of picking up colloquialisms from the manosphere, if they hang around in the wrong kinds of places.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      Honestly, anyone who can speak a second language has a better grasp of what a noun and an adjective are than yer average English speaker.

      Why?

      • JoBo@feddit.uk
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        8 months ago

        Maybe it’s only true of my aging generation but we never really encountered grammar until we were required to learn French.

        • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
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          8 months ago

          Interesting, english is my third language - but I’m just bad at grammar and spelling in general. Definitely learned grammar in school - just forgot all about it.