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[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

There was a whole battle about whether covid was masculine or feminine. I think feminine won, probably because it sucked.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Feminine is what the Académie settled on, months after everyone settled on Masculine.

That institution holds some normative power with other institutions (e.g. some media outlets) but has utterly failed to impose its outdated and reactionary outlook to anyone but other reactionaries. They're constantly coming out with revisions for words that reached common parlance years earlier.

So common usage is Le covid. If someone used the feminine I'd have to assume they unironically use the word "Wokisme", because only these kinds of people actually think that the Académie is worth listening to.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I think it was masculine, I heard a lot of people saying, "I got Covid Man."

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