▲ 231 ▼ French people (lemmy.world) submitted 9 months ago by abbotsbury@lemmy.world to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago (1 child) Grammatical gender is a thing in a shitload of languages. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (2 children) Sure, but in most cases, there's something loosely related to rules and logic about it. In Danish, the grammatical genders aren't 'male, female, nongender". There's nongender and multigender, and ABSOLUTELY no reason for anything being one or the other 🤷🏻 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago Ah yes this table is such a masculine table, such a good example of how all tables manifest masculinity, by um, having uh, legs and um. Describing any noun gendering in any language reads like a "we have been played for absolute fools" meme. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago If it makes you feel better, grammatical genders in Norwegian are arbitrary too. There are no rules or tricks to help you figure out if a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. :S permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (2 children) Sure, but in most cases, there's something loosely related to rules and logic about it. In Danish, the grammatical genders aren't 'male, female, nongender". There's nongender and multigender, and ABSOLUTELY no reason for anything being one or the other 🤷🏻 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago Ah yes this table is such a masculine table, such a good example of how all tables manifest masculinity, by um, having uh, legs and um. Describing any noun gendering in any language reads like a "we have been played for absolute fools" meme. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago If it makes you feel better, grammatical genders in Norwegian are arbitrary too. There are no rules or tricks to help you figure out if a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. :S permalink fedilink source parent
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago Ah yes this table is such a masculine table, such a good example of how all tables manifest masculinity, by um, having uh, legs and um. Describing any noun gendering in any language reads like a "we have been played for absolute fools" meme. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago If it makes you feel better, grammatical genders in Norwegian are arbitrary too. There are no rules or tricks to help you figure out if a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. :S permalink fedilink source parent