Talk:Wyman/@comment-26947430-20181227120531

I don't care rn about the rest of the silly arguments going on in this comments section, but something bothers me about the trivia section. The statement "The French and Italian translation of Dishonored 2 assumes that Wyman is a man" (side note, grammatically that should read "translations... assume" but that's irrelevant) is likely erroneous; in French, certainly (I'm not too knowledgeable of Italian, but I'm about 90% sure it's the same) there is literally no way to refer to someone's gender in a neutral way without very messy sentences like "le/la petit/e chien/ne" due to the fact that most words in a typical French phrase will have some kind of gendered part to them. Furthermore, due to how the language has evolved for various cultural reasons, generally speaking (they're getting better for this, but still) if there's even the tiniest chance that one could be referring to a male/masculine object, the gender of anything in that reference will be masculine. Therefore, I think the implication that the French translation (if not also the Italian one) assumes masculinity is innacurrate, moreso it just has to describe Wyman as masculine for lack of better judgement. If it was feminine, that would be an assumption of gender, such is the way the language works.