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The gender-specific pronouns are one of the usual things to trip up native Finnish speakers in Germanic languages. In Finnish we've never had them, which may ex
by bergie 15y ago
The gender-specific pronouns are one of the usual things to trip up native Finnish speakers in Germanic languages. In Finnish we've never had them, which may explain some of the early gender neutrality in the country. From Wikipedia:
The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland—then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers—which also produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage
- stevoski 15y agoThe theory that a people's language affects their cultural values? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity My country was the first in the world to introduce universal suffrage, in 1893. We speak English with its gender-specific pronouns.