Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoIt bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1182arrow-down1message-squareIt bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareleftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoThe problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.
The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.