Wat gebeurt er als je alle hij’s en zij’s omdraait?

Regender.com laat het zien

Taal heeft veel invloed op ons denken. De website Regender experimenteert daarmee. Op die site kun je in willekeurige teksten de seksen omwisselen waardoor de inhoud verandert. Om vast in de kerstsfeer te komen probeerde ik het met de wikipedia site over Jezus:

Jessica of Nazareth (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE), commonly referred to as Jessica Christ or simply as Jessica or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity. Most Christian denominations venerate her as Goddess the Daughter incarnated and believe that she rose from the dead after being crucified. Etcetera…

De site bestaat al een tijdje en heeft weer de site Fausterella geinspireerd om complete romans te ‘vertalen’.  Een voorbeeld daarvan is Sherlock Holmes, eh, Shirley Holmes dus:

“I had seen little of Miss Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the woman who first finds herself mistress of her own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Miss Holmes, who loathed every form of society with her whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among her old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition… “

 

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