Gender neutral language in French: Difference between revisions

'san' in the [sã] pronunciation is a homophone of 'sang', meaning blood. Alpheratz suggests 'mu(n)', 'tu(n)', 'su(n)'<ref name=":13" /> as synthetic form. However, 'tu(n)' is a homophone of the subject pronoun 'tu' and, <nowiki><u> — i. e. [y] — is a linguistically marked phone,</nowiki><ref>Waugh, Linda R./Lafford, Barbara A. (2008): Markedness. In: Booik, Geert/Lehmann, Christian/ Mugdan, Joachim/Kesselheim, Wolfgang/Skopeteas, Stavros: ''1. Halbband. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung''. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 272-280. DOI : <nowiki>https://doi.org/</nowiki> 10.1515/9783110111286.1.fm. </ref><ref>Rice, K. (2007). Markedness in phonology. In: ''The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology'', 79-98. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486371.005.</ref> The alternate forms 'mi(ne)', 'ti(ne)', 'sine' or  (only the roundness parameter distinguishes the vowel i [i] from u [y]), originate from Spanish 'mi' or English 'my' and Swedish 'min', 'din', as well as from the gender neutral reflexive possessive pronoun 'sin'<ref>Duolingo Wiki: ''Swedish Skills. Possessives''. Online at:https://duolingo.fandom.com/wiki/Swedish_Skill:Possessives.</ref> — the last one having no optional '-ne' ending to avoid homophony with 'si', meaning 'if'.