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Good examples for some of the different ways gender can be derived. Going deeper into blog, people who still remember "weblog" as the full form of "blog" will

by usrusr 8y ago

Good examples for some of the different ways gender can be derived. Going deeper into blog, people who still remember "weblog" as the full form of "blog" will call it "das Blog" (because "das Log" is a well established German term, gendered from "das Logbuch" perhaps), whereas people who were introduced to "blog" when it already felt like a standalone term will tend to use "der Blog", perhaps for to phonetic similarity to "der Block".

Semaphor 8y ago
That's funny because I'd say "das Blog" precisely because I remember weblogs and I'd say "das Log". Duden agrees with me [0] Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". When you have compound words only the last word matters for gender. [0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Log_Logdatei_EDV https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Log_Logdatei_EDV
- wolfgke 8y ago
  > Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". "das Log" is a device for measuring the speed of vessels: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A4t)&oldid=184060985 https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A... So of course a "Logbuch" has a lot to do with a "Log".
  - onli 8y ago
    Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts.
    - wolfgke 8y ago
      > Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts. OK, then I misunderstood - you were talking about this elementary grammatical rule and I was talking about the origin of the word "Logbuch" (the latter is something that even many native German speakers do not know).
  - usrusr 8y ago
    The log (as in chronologically written record) surely derives from the book where the log measurements were recorded, so it's all the same basically. Nauticalese is like a separate language that "infects" coastal languages with common terminology. Of course this would all be much more interesting if Log and Buch did not share gender.

by usrusr 8y ago

Semaphor 8y ago

That's funny because I'd say "das Blog" precisely because I remember weblogs and I'd say "das Log". Duden agrees with me [0] Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". When you have compound words only the last word matters for gender. [0]: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Log_Logdatei_EDV https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Log_Logdatei_EDV

wolfgke 8y ago
> Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". "das Log" is a device for measuring the speed of vessels: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A4t)&oldid=184060985 https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A... So of course a "Logbuch" has a lot to do with a "Log".
- onli 8y ago
  Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts.
  - wolfgke 8y ago
    > Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts. OK, then I misunderstood - you were talking about this elementary grammatical rule and I was talking about the origin of the word "Logbuch" (the latter is something that even many native German speakers do not know).
- usrusr 8y ago
  The log (as in chronologically written record) surely derives from the book where the log measurements were recorded, so it's all the same basically. Nauticalese is like a separate language that "infects" coastal languages with common terminology. Of course this would all be much more interesting if Log and Buch did not share gender.