codeforboston / docassemble-juvenilesealing

A docassemble extension for sealing juvenile records.
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Decide on grammatical gender approach for Spanish translation #160

Open srsexton94 opened 4 years ago

srsexton94 commented 4 years ago

Decide on an app-wide approach to grammatical gender for Spanish translation

Default masculine is the traditionally grammatical choice and probably expected from a formal resource like this. In plural nouns, it is still technically inclusive of multiple genders. The 'X' is considered more gender-inclusive and is increasingly recognized, but could be confusing if a user isn't accustomed to it already.

A possible middle ground is to use the 'X' in singular nouns, and default masc in plural

We want to check in with Caroline as well.

Translations currently defaulting to 'X'