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Guy labeled "languages where everything is gendered" hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled "non-binary people" runs away

  • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Look, cars are obviously male and bridges are very clearly female. It makes so much sense that people just know it!

    • Kaplya
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      10 months ago

      Not really, at least in Russian it depends on the ending consonant/vowel of the noun.

      For example, car in Russian is mashina, it ends with -a which means it is a feminine noun.

      I think it mostly has to do with how the pronunciation flows, like moya mashina (my car, with feminine singular moya as its possessive pronoun) obviously flows better than moy mashina (with masculine singular moy).

      • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 months ago

        I definitely agree it has more to do with how it sounds than anything else. Just check how people gender foreign gender neutral words, it's pretty random.