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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-03-16 04:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2630 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2630 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-03-16 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Why? Is it because we insert ourselves into them?
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[personal profile] inkdust 2014-03-16 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Noun gender isn't determined by logic.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-16 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, IT SHOULD BE.

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(Anonymous) 2014-03-16 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Case in point: the word for manliness in Latin is grammatically feminine.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-17 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
In my language as well!
inevitableentresol: a Victorian gentleman with the body of a carrot (Default)

[personal profile] inevitableentresol 2014-03-16 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
And what about all the objects for which the gender is neuter?

The car - neuter.
The girl - neuter.
The rabbit - neuter.
The uranium - neuter.

What does that say?

Yeah, this secret doesn't make much sense to me.

(Anonymous) 2014-03-17 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Our cats are female and our rabbits are male :

(Anonymous) 2014-03-17 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
In Norwegian dialects, these words are almost always female, even when there's a pressure to make feminine words neutral:

girl, dog, cow, hen, street, village, hillside, bog, meadow, island

...I wonder why?