• Head@lemmings.world
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    9 months ago

    I think having a check box at the top of the screen, where you could choose your gender, would not be so hard to implement. Or an alternate translation could be provided like DeepL already does with formal to informal address.

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      9 months ago

      And what if I have a sentence with multiple words with unclear genders? Should they have a dropdown with every possible combination? If we have a sentence with 8 unclear words we’d have a list like:

      • “Männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich”
      • “Männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, weiblich”
      • “Männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, männlich, weiblich, männlich”

      with 256 entries. For 16 unclear words you’d have 65.536 list entries.

      Yeah, “that wouldn’t be so hard to implement”, because it’s the worst way of approaching the problem and completely unusable.

      • Turun@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        Oh come on, you can argue against their point without being completely brain dead.

        Do you need 256 memory addresses to store a single byte? Obviously not. So you can just make a three way checkbox for every character in the translation.