(March 23, 2023 at 10:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(December 10, 2022 at 8:23 pm)Helios Wrote: I said it once I'll say it a million times what's male and female in terms of gender is up to the individual for themselves
Any thinking person can see that this is not true. Gender is a product of language and has no objective relationship to sex. If you studied any other language that was highly gendered, like French or Hebrew, you would understand that. It does not follow that individuals get to pick and choose, like the Chestshire cat, what gendered words mean to them and have them mean whatever they want them to. A culture and the conventions of its language dictate usage...not individuals.
Are you talking about the gender thing in languages or human gender.
I assume human gender means male and female.
One of them wears a skirt, pearls, long hair, earrings, makeup, deodorant that smells like strawberries and maybe as kids, they play with dolls that look like babies.
I haven’t understood word gender although I know french.
They have le and du and un for male objects and la and de la and une for female objects.
Apparently, italian and arabic is the same way.
In arabic, it is even worst since if you are talking about a male person, the sentence changes quite a bit compared to when you talk about a female person.
In french, they use il for guys. In english, they say he.
In french, they use elle for ladies. In english, they say she.
When it is a bunch of guys and ladies, they use ils. In english, they say they.
In armenian, there is no he and she and words don’t have gender.
When I speak french, I sometimes only use the male form: le, du, un for all the words and people try to stop me and correct me.
To me, memorizing the word genders and potentially making mistakes is a big waste of time. A lot of kids lose marks because of that silly thing.
In french, some words change as well.
Es-tu serieux? (Are you serious)
If you say that to a lady, she will correct you and say it should be Es-tu serieuse? (notice the last “se”)