Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoThe rulesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down17
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minus-squarejenesaisquoi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·12 hours agoIt’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.
minus-squareSchmoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoGrammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that’s because it actually just doesn’t make sense.
It’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.
Grammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that’s because it actually just doesn’t make sense.