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Guy labeled "languages where everything is gendered" hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled "non-binary people" runs away
Guy labeled "languages where everything is gendered" hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled "non-binary people" runs away
hungarian isnt gendered at all
not even gendered pronouns
you have to expressly mention gender if you want it known as far as i understand it
now you might think to yourself : "neat maybe ill learn some hungarian as a fun hobby" let me say, no, you wont. my great grandparents only spoke hungarian and its a bitch of a language to learn
oh yeah, remembered this funny thing, just as a demonstration of the genderless nature of hungarian.
so one of the points of the communist usage of comrade was that it's inclusive and non-gendered, right? now, we didnt borrow the word, we made up a translation: elvtárs. it means something like companion-in-principles or something. principle-mate.
AND THEN THEY MADE UP elvtársnő! to be used for women. it's the same word with "woman" stuck on the back.
neat, maybe ill learn some hungarian as a fun hobby. wow, "the hardest language to learn for an English speaker", can't be that bad.
eh, i doubt that's true. "one of the hardest european languages to learn for an english native" feels closer to the truth.
The internet lied to me? Wild
this is the usual anglocentric map: https://i.imgur.com/4ABYc7X.png
so basically indoeuropean languages supposedly get harder the further away you go from england, and then languages belonging to a different language family are super hard.
and i think languages spoken by non-whites are even harder, but that's not on this map, except for that bit of arabic in north africa. i'd guess they rate chinese as harder than arabic.
hungarian uses the latin alphabet, has a fairly phonetic spelling, has had extensive contact with indoeuropean languages and borrowed a shitton of words from them (scientific vocabulary is largely latin/greek for example). so it's not that bad in comparison.
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eh, it's not that hard, babies can learn it.
but there's no point, especially for nonbinary people. because while the grammar of the language isnt gendered, the PEOPLE speaking said language are fascist scum for the most part, and think not spitting in a woman's eye is peak chivalry. yes, they think chivalry is still a thing.
Babies can learn any language.
that thought lies at the heart of the joke, yes
Sorry, my bad. I didn't catch that it was a joke since it was being used to support a serious point.