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Job title doctor: Now also represented independently in the online dictionary
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The online dictionary from Duden-Verlag significantly enhances female forms.
As the head of the Duden editorial team, Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, said on Friday, all around 12,000 personal and professional titles are to be gradually changed so that the female and male form are each given equal status and are specifically explained.
The doctor already appears in the online edition: »Female person who, after studying medicine and clinical training, has received state approval (license to practice medicine) to treat sick people.« The teacher, on the other hand, has to refer to the teacher (»female Form to teacher ”).
The successive revision of the online Dudens began last autumn and should be completed this year.
On the one hand, women should become more visible.
But there are also very practical reasons: While the influencer can be recorded with the influencer in a moment in the printed Duden, women / men would have to click a second time online if they wanted to find out what exactly an influencer does.
"It's not really new what we're doing," said Kunkel-Razum.
"It is just the obvious continuation of what we have been doing for a very long time." For more than 20 years, the Duden has been adopting the masculine and feminine form when introducing new personal and professional names.
In the printed Duden, the doctor is initially not specifically explained.
Anyone who wants to know what she is doing there is referred to the male counterpart.
Kunkel-Razum rejected criticism that the generic masculine (i.e. the grammatical masculine form, which is used in a generalized way) would disappear with the online revision: Users could go on “to the doctor” and “get treated” by a doctor.
"Die Welt" had previously reported on the revision.
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