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> It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages. May depend on place and culture. I recall my French teacher in 4th gr
by graeme 5y ago
> It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages.
May depend on place and culture. I recall my French teacher in 4th grade got snide about this while explaining that even a single man in a group will turn the group masculine. She was francophone.
This certainly bothers anglos much much more though.
- dhosek 5y agoI remember when I realized this learning Spanish that it made me a little sad that I could only ever be part of ellos and not ellas.
- peoplefromibiza 5y agoIt doesn't turn the group masculine, it turns the word used to the masculine plural, which is the generic word for a group of people. But if you take sciences, for example, it's plural feminine in French and Italian. If you put a masculine discipline in the group, for example "law" which is masculine in Italian (il diritto), the group of disciplines is still referred to as feminine "le scienze" It's a matter of gender of the plural word, it has nothing to do with biological sex.
- graeme 5y agoThanks! Good points. I half wonder if my teacher’s grievance didn’t come from living in a majority anglo culture.