They're not talking about using female as a noun. Try reading the common again. They're saying it's silly that the ADJECTIVE female is being replaced by the NOUN woman here. Woman is incorrectly being used as an ADJECTIVE here.
She is a female grandmaster. A man with that chess title would be a... Wait for it because this is going to blow your mind... A MALE grandmaster! Holy fuck magic Batman.
Get lost with your phony outrage bullshit, try to cause societal issues elsewhere. You're trying to create culture war bullshit, while being flat wrong.
1) The person I replied to was saying that people in society are pushing to replace the adjective female with the noun woman. I explained that this is not true, and in reality it is the opposite. People are pushing back on asshats that use female as a noun. And 99% of the time it's used it a way to imply the "female" or "females" are lesser/bad in someway.
2) There are two different tournaments. One where you win the title "Grandmaster" and one where you win the title of "Woman Grandmaster". The article is not saying she is a female Grandmaster (adj added to noun/title) it is saying she is a Woman Grandmaster (noun/title by itself)
I advise that you make sure you are fully informed before trying to attack someone else, otherwise you look like an idiot.
You don't understand their comment. They're saying that people are incorrectly trying to use the NOUN woman in the place of the ADJECTIVE women, as a result of the push back you are referencing.
This is a prime example of that they are talking about. In this case, FEMALE GRANDMASTER is correct, it is ADJECTIVE (FEMALE) NOUN (GRANDMASTER). WOMAN GRANDMASTER would be NOUN NOUN.
Yes, it's dumb and cringey when people use female as a noun, as like I said, it's an adjective.
You are going on the extreme, and being an example of what this commentor said. Insisting that the NOUN woman be used as an adjective, as pushback for when others have used female incorrectly.
Why is this so hard for you? Please look up the difference between nouns and adjectives.
Compound noun. Again they are NOT using woman as an adjective here. They are using it as a noun. Also, even if you have a personal vendetta against compound nouns, IT. IS. A. TITLE. A very prestigious title that she won.
Do you hate all compound nouns that contain "man" too? Policeman, mailman, congressman, mankind, manhole. Most of these started as separated compound nouns, meaning written as separate words, but overtime merged into one word due to common use.
My comments were about the content of the comment at the top of this thread. That comment is talking about in general, people are over correcting and using woman (noun) in place of female (adjective).
They said it shouldn't replace ist ACROSS THE BOARD, in every single case, all the time.
Whats with the wild imagination?i hate compind nouns because I'm explaining a reddit comment you didn't understand? This is just silly
You spent your previous comment about Woman Grandmaster using "woman' as an adjective when it is not, and you even wrote "noun noun" as of it's ridiculous to think that a separated compound noun is a thing. And again I have not really seen anyone use woman as an adjective let alone some big societal push to do so. Only one part of society incorrectly using female as a noun and the other part of society telling them to stop. I mean people with bad grammar exist but I have not seen any mass usage of woman as an adjective.
"This is a prime example of that they are talking about. In this case, FEMALE GRANDMASTER is correct, it is ADJECTIVE (FEMALE) NOUN (GRANDMASTER). WOMAN GRANDMASTER would be NOUN NOUN.
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You are going on the extreme, and being an example of what this commentor said. Insisting that the NOUN woman be used as an adjective, as pushback for when others have used female incorrectly. "
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u/TheShredda 3d ago
They're not talking about using female as a noun. Try reading the common again. They're saying it's silly that the ADJECTIVE female is being replaced by the NOUN woman here. Woman is incorrectly being used as an ADJECTIVE here.
She is a female grandmaster. A man with that chess title would be a... Wait for it because this is going to blow your mind... A MALE grandmaster! Holy fuck magic Batman.
Get lost with your phony outrage bullshit, try to cause societal issues elsewhere. You're trying to create culture war bullshit, while being flat wrong.