Any men seeking to learn Japanese from their local girlfriend, be warned: you will sound a bit gay to everyone for awhile. Fortunately, this is common enough that most Japanese won’t razz you for it
At one point, there was an online tool that could determine if a writing sample was done by a man or a woman, and it was 95% accurate. This was the pre-LLM days, so it was a fairly simple script, just comparing word choices and grammar.
I took Japanese in college and I didn’t realize until I started talking to actual Japanese people that the classes were teaching me the girliest princess honorifics possible lol
In Japanese there is speech coded predominantly male and female. This includes word choices and some grammatical ones as well.
Any men seeking to learn Japanese from their local girlfriend, be warned: you will sound a bit gay to everyone for awhile. Fortunately, this is common enough that most Japanese won’t razz you for it
This happens in English as well.
At one point, there was an online tool that could determine if a writing sample was done by a man or a woman, and it was 95% accurate. This was the pre-LLM days, so it was a fairly simple script, just comparing word choices and grammar.
I would say in English you need a tool to analyze the text; in Japanese your ears can do this job.
I took Japanese in college and I didn’t realize until I started talking to actual Japanese people that the classes were teaching me the girliest princess honorifics possible lol