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[–] assembly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

For all of the shit people talk about the English language, this is a big thing I appreciate about it. What the hell was the point of even gendering random things from the start? In German, the main gendering are die, der, and das with das being gender neutral. I would like to see a world where in scenarios like that they just move everything to das.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Here's a simple trick:

Apply misogyny and sexism /s

[–] matelt@feddit.uk 15 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Buuuut cars are a men thing aren't they? And yet it's la voiture...... Curious.......

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Is it possible to bash your way though this, as a foreigner, by getting the gender wrong half the time? Are mis-genedered nouns sometimes homophones for completely different things, or can you be understood with bad grammar, regardless?

I say this since sometimes "bad/wrong" is less about understanding and more about "that sounds funny" or "nobody talks like that."

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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How do you call a herd of washing machines?

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[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

English is such a poor language that they only have the article The and nouns without genders.

Seethe and cope.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

So poor they held to sell off cases as well.

[–] QuestionMark@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

My native language doesn't have any articles and there is no distinction between he and she.

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[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

bullpies!

i don't like English, but those are things it does right!

who the hell needs TWELVE definite articles?!

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Speakers of enlightened languages?

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[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Pierre-Frédérique-Antoine and Mike having llunch after french class. Mike : Oh wregaarde un mouche! PFA : non, on dit UNE mouche. Mike: wow t'as de bons zyeux!

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

female of course

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Y'all would love Irish. There is no word for "yes" or "no".

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[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

no rules, no sens, only disdain

L'Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex "for the common and the women"

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