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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Y'all would love Irish. There is no word for "yes" or "no".

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[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Pierre-Frédérique-Antoine and Mike having llunch after french class. Mike : Oh wregaarde un mouche! PFA : non, on dit UNE mouche. Mike: wow t'as de bons zyeux!

[-] menas@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 days ago

no rules, no sens, only disdain

L'Académie Française existed since the 18th century to make the language too complex "for the common and the women"

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[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

female of course

[-] bystander@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

My two main fluent languages are not gendered. It was such a weird concept when I started to learn French.

[-] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 8 points 4 days ago

In my language we have genders for every noun. But it is trivially deducted from the spelling/pronunciation of that noun.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tell me the Gender of Nutella or Yogurt, then :)

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

La nutella (she) y el (he) yogurt.

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[-] macke49@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Gender is a social construct powered by language.

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Try Polish. Our verbs and adjectives are also gendered.

A washing machine is feminine, how is it in french?

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