alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Anime@ani.socialEnglish · 2 days agoNew Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu'www.cbr.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down11
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minus-squaresj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days ago“does not have to be clearly masculine or feminine, as was the case until 2008, but may also be neutral.” If my child is a boy, I will name him fish. If a girl, Fishwife. If non-binary or it doesn’t like the other names, scaly skin.
minus-squaresj_zero@lotide.fbxl.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days ago(just in case people misunderstand and think I’m making a more pointed attack than I really am, I’m just making a reference to the 1880 essay “The Awful German Language” by Mark Twain) https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
“does not have to be clearly masculine or feminine, as was the case until 2008, but may also be neutral.”
If my child is a boy, I will name him fish. If a girl, Fishwife. If non-binary or it doesn’t like the other names, scaly skin.
(just in case people misunderstand and think I’m making a more pointed attack than I really am, I’m just making a reference to the 1880 essay “The Awful German Language” by Mark Twain)
https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html