Albin JoseI am English and that has made me cringe!
NigelFrobisherYeah, but at least you don’t have to learn whether a fridge is male or female.
PsythikHow do gendered languages even deal with non-binaries?
Grammatical gender ≠ biological gender ≠ gender identity. 🤷♂️
ThatWeirdGuy1001That doesn’t answer the question at all lmao
It does, but I think you don’t understand what grammatical gender is.
I don’t either, care to explain?
Grammatical gender has nothing to do with social gender, it’s just a simple way to communicate that there are classes of words which belong together. Some languages have gender pairs (e.g. Masculine and Feminine words), and some languages have more genders (e.g. Latin’s Masculine, Feminine and Neutral). Some others still have a mix of genders still in use and active, still in use exclusively for historical reasons, and completely unused (e.g. Portuguese has active use of Masculine/Feminine, but Neutral gender is only present as an inherited holdover.).
That’s why @leftzero did answer the question - insofar as to state the question was incomplete to begin with. What does it mean to “deal with non-binaries” when a language isn’t binary in its gender?
Thank you
I love how you had negative karma because people want to use linguistics as some jab against how inclusive you are rather than just understand gendered language. Surprisingly LatinX is still gaining popularity!
Even better is people asking the difference when you’re essentially asking for a doctorate thesis in linguistics in a comment on Lemmy lol.
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