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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Spanish speaker here. For as chaotic and wild as English is, I've always appreciated that it has no gendered nouns. Why are chairs female? Makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dick in French is, you guessed it, female.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As are mustache and balls. Meanwhile, bra, vagina and boobs are male.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Don't tell Republicans

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe you are interested in Finnish. We do not have gendered pronouns either. Everyone is just "hän".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying Hän is Solo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Hän man is Speedy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hold my Duolingo owl, I'm gonna look up Finnish that sounds awesome

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Can I keep it after that? I always wanted a pet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Clearly, because chairs are obviously male (German). Anything else is just silly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, French here, but a chair can be both. It depends of the type : Une chaise is obviously feminine while un siège or un fauteuil are definitely masculin. Also Germanic language like English and German mixing these two meaning are silly languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why. Just why? It's just you French and your obsession for...

la silla vs el asiento (Spanish)

Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think we just spotted a cultural fracture btw people of Romance language and the one of Germanic language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, also, mice are obviously female.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

... but rats aren't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Somone has to come up with the word chairdude. And some corporate bean counter will invent the word chairhuman to show how diverse they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Grammatical genders are just that. Grammatical. It's a classification scheme. Latin had neutral nouns and plenty of languages make grammatical differences between animate and inanimate nouns. That current romance languages make a deliberate division between "male" and "female" nouns does not mean they have to correspond to actual features of human beings.

That being said. It's ridiculous that agua is femenine but with the definite article it has to be el agua in singular but las aguas in plural. All the explanations by RAE simply amounts to "we like it this way, lolol".