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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Pronouns (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure, there's some correlation - but when 99% of words in a noun class can't have a biological gender it seems weird to name it after the 1%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well, you're arguing terminology. But the original commenter's point was about the association of grammatical gender with gender, and that is definitely a thing in German.

Der Arzt (Male doctor) -> die Ärztin (female doctor) is an example where the grammatical gender changes with the gender of the person, and that's almost always the case.