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It isn't coincidental most words for men and male animals are masculine and most words for women and female animals are feminine. It's the people who complain
by pseudalopex 5y ago
It isn't coincidental most words for men and male animals are masculine and most words for women and female animals are feminine.
It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.
- fpig 5y ago> It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same. Ironically, you've just confirmed what GP said by confusing the concept of grammatical gender with the modern social studies concept of gender.
- pseudalopex 5y agoHow? They used gender to mean social gender. So did I.
- hprotagonist 5y agohttps://www.etymonline.com/word/gender https://www.etymonline.com/word/gender still, the grammatical sense predates the sex sense by a bit, and has always been around to mean “genre”. So you always have to disambiguate usage
- pseudalopex 5y agoYour point is unclear to me. Gender doesn't mean genre in contemporary English. And context is enough to distinguish grammatical gender from other meanings usually.
- hprotagonist 5y agoexcept when context is not enough; i.e., when a grammatical gender form applies to nouns that describe persons with social genders. And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
- pseudalopex 5y agoNouns that describe persons with social genders have matching grammatical genders usually. And you have to distinguish when talking about both at once obviously. > And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”. Seems rare to me.