Wait until these fuckwits discover the litany of languages where entire words or concepts are male or female, where women have to speak a subtly different version of the language, where family names are different for women, etc.
Like in old Norse. if a man named Thor has a Daughter named Brigit her full name would be Brigit Thorsdottir, While his son Gunnar would be Gunnar Thorson
Actually, "masculine and feminine", not "male or female". There's a subtle difference. One can be a masculine female, or an effeminate male, or a masculine sexless creature (hypothetically, something like Piccolo's species from Dragon Ball - they're asexual but masculine.)
If you went through a dictionary and scored all the words on a "male"/"female" and then a "masculine"/"feminine" scale the difference would be like 5 words.
Would actually be an interesting experiment to see if Germans would still call girls "it" if they had a do-over (das Maedchen, Es heisst Lisa, etc).
Wait until these fuckwits discover the litany of languages where entire words or concepts are male or female, where women have to speak a subtly different version of the language, where family names are different for women, etc.
Like in old Norse. if a man named Thor has a Daughter named Brigit her full name would be Brigit Thorsdottir, While his son Gunnar would be Gunnar Thorson
Still done today in Iceland. Much to the detriment of their phone books.
Not really, it's only 1.5 pages long.
Actually, "masculine and feminine", not "male or female". There's a subtle difference. One can be a masculine female, or an effeminate male, or a masculine sexless creature (hypothetically, something like Piccolo's species from Dragon Ball - they're asexual but masculine.)
If you went through a dictionary and scored all the words on a "male"/"female" and then a "masculine"/"feminine" scale the difference would be like 5 words.
Would actually be an interesting experiment to see if Germans would still call girls "it" if they had a do-over (das Maedchen, Es heisst Lisa, etc).
seems i had one too many after-bbq schnaps.
what do you mean? 'das mädel' is correct, 'sie heißt lisa' would be correct.
not trying to be a cunt, i simply don't get the point you're trying to make.
I'm just basing it off "Das Mädchen ist klein. Es heißt Lisa ... would be grammatically correct and is still sometimes used".
So they have already changed "it" to "her" in some cases.
Ancient Rome moment.
Sioux laughed at Dances with Wolves because all the indians are speaking the female version of the language.