Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoThe rulesh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1434arrow-down110
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minus-squarejenesaisquoi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 days agoIt’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.
minus-squareSchmoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoGrammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that’s because it actually just doesn’t make sense.
minus-squarejenesaisquoi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn’t. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one
It’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.
Grammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that’s because it actually just doesn’t make sense.
I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn’t. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one