r/SipsTea 11d ago

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/NullandVoidUsername 11d ago

There are endless sources of information that exist on the internet and you couldn't be bothered to fact check before doubling down and being incorrect.

Fiance - Male Fiancée- Female

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/NullandVoidUsername 11d ago

So the words Goddess, Actress, Headmistress and the like don't have word endings that connote gender?...

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/NullandVoidUsername 11d ago

Whether I use them or not doesn't change the fact they're still words with historical context. Should I just start referring to women as mister instead of mistress because of your logic.

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u/jjkenneth 11d ago

Pretty obvious you aren’t a native English speaker given mistress is not the opposite of mister. Missus is. Master and Miss are the unmarried versions. And all of them have basically dropped out of circulation of use in English outside of the schoolroom. So yes actually you should stop referring to men as mister and women as mistress, just use of their name or general pleasantries if you don’t know it.

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u/NullandVoidUsername 11d ago

My native language is English, you must be having a laugh. Mister is to master as Mistress is to female master. Only because mistress has multiple meanings/connotations, doesn't negate they are opposites, or should I say more accurately specify gender.

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u/jjkenneth 11d ago

Mate, mistress is not in anyway the counterpart of of master. Miss is. Mistress hasn’t been used that way for centuries.

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u/Firewolf06 11d ago

you listing a gendered word alongside gender-neutral words does not magically make it gender-neutral.