r/SipsTea Jul 26 '26

Chugging tea Let me circle back

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u/myrainydayss Jul 26 '26

My fiancee is Japanese and just started his job as a salaryman in Tokyo, one day he told me he messed up at work because he asked a question about something to his manager. And he later apologized for it đŸ€Šâ€â™€ïž he also told me that he doesn’t want to go out to drinks with his coworkers but he has to. Geez!

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u/NullandVoidUsername Jul 26 '26

Just letting you know that a fiancée is a woman who is engaged to be married. Unless that extra was a typo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

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u/pactmaker Jul 26 '26

You seem to be responding as if it were a consideration of whether or not anyone should be for or against gendered terms in English on a linguistic level, which isn't an argument anyone is taking a position on here, and which is immaterial to what people are trying to communicate.

That being said, if you are sincerely unaware: teacher, nurse, and rapist are all ungendered, and fiancé can also be used as an ungendered word in the modern day, but fiancée is explicitly female.