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[Mulch Diggums]

No, this isnt a topic about wether dwarven females should have beards, or wether the dwarven males should take care of the kids, this is a topic about what dwarven females are called, when refering to their gender. Male and female just wont do, man and woman is more of a human thing, im thinking the word dwarf would be fine for males, "Hey urist, that dwarf over there just called your mother a soaper, lets go hammer him!" But what about females? Dwarfete?

[Kate Wissen]

Dwarf is unisex, like human, elf, goblin, geek, etc...

No need for a specific term for women. =)

[Mulch Diggums]

Sure, but I still want one for the story im writing

[Rhenaya]

man and woman is for the genders in all sentient beings :> and pulling some ridicolus word out of the hat wont do it either... dwarfette for example just sounds stupid to me :p

[Mulch Diggums]

Same to me, but I just threw it out there. I was hoping for somthing a bit diferent to use for man and woman, but oh well. Those will have to do.

[Javis]

You could look up the appropriate dwarven language words for man and woman in the language_DWARF raw.

[Javis]

You know, dwarfette is simply the word dwarf with the feminine diminutive ending -ette from French, so the word would make sense if these were French dwarves.

[Keilden]

You know, dwarfette is simply the word dwarf with the feminine diminutive ending -ette from French, so the word would make sense if these were French dwarves.

French dwarfs? The legends screen would be filled with wars that they surrendered.

[Kate Wissen]

<aside>
I think your views on french history are a bit askew. The french revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic wars, its heavy assistance in the american revolutionary war, the thirty years war. I'm not saying they didn't have defeats and surrenders, just that France wasn't always what it is today.
</aside>

What kind of story are you writing? Will it be in the community forum?

[Fossaman]

I'd go with dwarfess if you felt you had to use a different word than dwarf. I think dwarf should be gender neutral, myself.

[Qmarx]

<aside>
I think your views on french history are a bit askew. The french revolutionary wars, the Napoleonic wars, its heavy assistance in the american revolutionary war, the thirty years war. I'm not saying they didn't have defeats and surrenders, just that France wasn't always what it is today.
</aside>

What kind of story are you writing? Will it be in the community forum?

<aside>
Those first two examples are the French fighting against... the French, and the French being lead by a non-French commander.  Who still lost.<asnide>

Yeah, I'm thinking dwarf is gender neutral.

[Kate Wissen]

<aside>
The french revolutionary wars:
The name may be misleading. France's government was overthrown in an internal revolt, then that new government declared war on several different nations of Europe. It was just ten days after the new government executed Louis the XVI that France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands.
</aside>

.... I actually had nothing else to add.

[Krash]

<aside>
This thing called humour, do you know it? 
</aside>

[Yanlin]

Throw some blue dye and call them smurfs.

Smurfette.

[Appelgren]

From the dwarf language raws:

man = udos
woman = aral

Also, strangely enough, as far as I can see there is no dwarven word for dwarf (or elf or human or goblin).