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euphonism · 4 months ago

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Don’t act like you speak all languages, please. Some languages DO literally refer to grammatically gendered nouns as “male” or “female”. Romance languages are not the only languages that exist. I understand what you are trying to say, but please do not make sweeping generalizations about languages you don’t speak. Like who’s “we”? Speakers of like 5 out of the 1000+ languages that exist?

we don't even call grammatical genders the same thing as gender genders... like do people just not notice that it's "feminine" and not "female". those are different words

#Женский is used for grammatical gender AND refers to female humans #Мужской works similarly #Smug people in the comments acting like we just didn’t pay attention in Spanish class #Latin derived languages are not the only languages #Средний (neuter) also exists in Russian #My (female) name actually ends with a noun (the masculine ending). But I will be exclusively referred to with feminine adjectives #When it comes time to conjugate my name instead of using masculine endings it’s correct to just not conjugate it at all

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