I kind of like them but I just wish the “base” was neuter e.g. avo would be grandparent, then avino could stay grandmother and something else could be grandfather. Overall I think the modularity is neat
i.e. optional suffixes to highlight social gender, but the default was neuter? I’d like it better than the current system, but I think that the suffixes aren’t even necessary - if you need to specify the gender, you can simply plop some additional word and call it a day.
That’s a piece of criticism in retrospect though. Social awareness of gender issues was way lower in Zamenhof’s times than now, not really blaming him.
I kind of like them but I just wish the “base” was neuter e.g. avo would be grandparent, then avino could stay grandmother and something else could be grandfather. Overall I think the modularity is neat
i.e. optional suffixes to highlight social gender, but the default was neuter? I’d like it better than the current system, but I think that the suffixes aren’t even necessary - if you need to specify the gender, you can simply plop some additional word and call it a day.
That’s a piece of criticism in retrospect though. Social awareness of gender issues was way lower in Zamenhof’s times than now, not really blaming him.