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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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[–] 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