I would remove gendered things like different pronouns per gender and things like "lioness" or "waitress". People then must specify "male" or "female" "lion" or "waiter", if that's significant.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The other I learned that a group of lions is called "a pride". Sounds cool, but quite difficult to learn all the group nouns for all the animals as a non-native

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

I second this. Even native speakers are often ignorant of all the possibilities. Just call everything a herd.

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I would get rid of the formal "Sie" and change it to the informal "Du". No need for the two to coexist. Sie/Du is german for "You".

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How open is "Sie" still used on a day-to-day basis? Like do people use "Sie" for their boss?

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We use "Sie" for adult people we don't know and at work for people like the boss etc. Online we only use "Du", except in formal emails. But there's a lot of exceptions to these rules. I try to use "Du" wherever I can. When younger people call me "Sie" I immediately offer them the "Du".

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Introduce a 4th grammatical gender and, randomly, change 1/4th of all nouns to use the new one.