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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Try German. Why is bread non-binary bro, why is the moon masculine and the sun feminine!?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nothing is worse than Das Mädchen

Girls are agender says the nazis

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's because it ends on "-chen". It's a suffix to basically cutiefy whatever comes in front of it and makes every word agender. So like "Der Hund" (the dog) becomes "Das Hündchen" (the doggy). "Mädchen" originally comes from the word "Die Maid", which means young woman but is never used in modern German. So "Mädchen" is basically "girlie", not "girl". Don't ask me why this happened germany-cool

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know the "explanation", and it's still extremely stupid and not a valid excuse

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I personally hate Die/Der See

[–] huf@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

bread, i dunno, but the moon is presumably masculine because the man in the moon, Tilion is a man. and the sun feminine because Arien is a woman and she's the pilot of the sun.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ok that's pretty cool to learn. Still hard to remember all noun genders ñ, though.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

heh, it's from tolkien.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

It is important to understand that these are not actually "gendered" that's just the term linguists used for noun classes that some obviously gendered things were a part of.