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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] 8 points 10 months 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 10 months 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] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah always, we create talking stones and trees 😁

Talking stone