Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
[French language Yes will provide explanation that isn't political] In a Nonbinary Pronoun, France Sees a U.S. Attack on...
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Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
Oh boy. I get back online to view this. I'll start off with there is no neutral in French unlike German or English.
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
You have either masculine or feminine. Neutral or generic is masculine. Furthermore, adjectives have to agree with the gender and the number of the noun
and when you have a set of elements which are masculine and feminine (ie. a classroom full of students, male and female), it's the masculine forms which "wins"
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
so you can't just add a generic pronoun and say "voilà, problem solved"
Instead, you're opening Pandora's box
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tronja307020
3 years ago
Same with Spanish and, I suspect, most Latin-based languages.
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
Same with German being masculine or feminine
tronja307020
3 years ago
Yeah, German, from what I've seen while trying to learn it, is also like this, but not quite as strictly?
tronja307020
3 years ago
German seems to be more of a playful language, in that they enjoy fucking around with words and just making shit up, sometimes.
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
Sometimes?
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
I have nightmares of reading German philosophy in German because when I try to translate the concept to English...
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
They have to be exact to the point of overkill on everything.
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
I love studying European languages but the syntax and grammar rules for each one are....
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
Polish as an example.
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
They have neutral pronoun but there is still a lot of neutral terms that are masculine
Rosesrosabella
3 years ago
and the pronoun is mainly used to talk about children or animals
and even that rarely
Mike L
3 years ago
"wokisme"? Don't they have proofreaders?
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