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La Rance et les Rançais

(Mêmes, blagues, news insolites et autres autour de la ~~F~~rance, du ~~F~~rançais, et tout ce qui y ressemble)


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Le caca c'est caca, faut pas manger: faites caca ailleurs svp

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Persian is one of the indo-european languages that dropped gender completely. They're the real bosses. (Sorry, I'm an absolute non-francophone).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, It's very hard to imagine a world without gender. A story without man and woman, would a crazy challenge :D

[–] intelati 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But inanimate objects? I remember hearing a story about a Russian (Soviet) machine that is a "He", not a ship "Her"

I guess we humans do tend to personify stuff

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The base language for all of those is proto-indo-european, which was gendered. Finno-urgic and turkic families are not, for example. The mother tongue for Germanic, Slavic, and Romantic languages originally gendered both nouns and adjectives. Persian, which shares those roots, not only got rid of that but also gendered pronouns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah always, we create talking stones and trees 😁

Talking stone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No worries, welcome!