Re: Usage of gender in Spanish?

Ana Galan <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:32:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.org.fsf.europe.translators
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

On 10/12/2025 13:55, Henning Lammert wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
>> I would change the heading:
>>
>> Estimado to Estimado/a  for male and female options.
>>
>> ...and I would change colaborador to colaborador/a 
>
>
> I would forward your idea to the list, as I am not sure how gender 
> language is used in Spanish, especially public facing texts.
>
> In German, the generic masculine is still the preferred method for 
> public facing texts, while internal documents might differ from that.
>
> I would assume "Estimado/a" is fine.

To avoid that in our fundraising mailings we are trying to avoid gender 
language so we go for neutral forms such as Hola

Best,

Ana

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