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Originally posted by BobBertran1992
In a Spanish community schools want to ban ''Alumnos'' ,the generic form to call ''Students'' which happens to be the same form to call male students, for ''Alumnos Y ALUMNAS'' (the female word for ''students'')
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That seems ridiculous, isn't every plural form like that masculine, like "padres".

That's just the way the language works, no?