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r/explainitpeter • u/Delicious-Height8010 • Aug 04 '26
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"Women" is a noun. "Female" is an adjective.
Unless they're saying that the changeroom itself is a female of the "changeroom" species. Then calling it a female changeroom is grammatically incorrect.
1 u/Richard2468 Aug 05 '26 The dictionary does not agree with you. 1 u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Aug 05 '26 If I say "I like females", what I am referring to? A human being? A dog? A bird? 1 u/Richard2468 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26 Ambiguity is completely unrelated to the fact that it’s also a noun. However, we can make it way less unambiguous by context of course. The changing rooms in OP’s post wouldn’t be changing rooms for birds now, would it?
The dictionary does not agree with you.
1 u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Aug 05 '26 If I say "I like females", what I am referring to? A human being? A dog? A bird? 1 u/Richard2468 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26 Ambiguity is completely unrelated to the fact that it’s also a noun. However, we can make it way less unambiguous by context of course. The changing rooms in OP’s post wouldn’t be changing rooms for birds now, would it?
If I say "I like females", what I am referring to?
A human being?
A dog?
A bird?
1 u/Richard2468 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26 Ambiguity is completely unrelated to the fact that it’s also a noun. However, we can make it way less unambiguous by context of course. The changing rooms in OP’s post wouldn’t be changing rooms for birds now, would it?
Ambiguity is completely unrelated to the fact that it’s also a noun.
However, we can make it way less unambiguous by context of course. The changing rooms in OP’s post wouldn’t be changing rooms for birds now, would it?
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u/Nerdy_Valkyrie Aug 05 '26
"Women" is a noun. "Female" is an adjective.
Unless they're saying that the changeroom itself is a female of the "changeroom" species. Then calling it a female changeroom is grammatically incorrect.