• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    161·
    2 days ago

    At least English doesn’t have a “she” table, a “he” refrigerator, and a “neutral” lamp gender for everything.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      First of all tables are male, and secondly at least we spell things close to how they are pronounced in german

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
        4·
        2 days ago

        In Italian tables are gender fluid. You can have “la tavola” e “il tavolo”.

        Surfing? It’s a female: la tavola da surf.

        Eating? Male: il tavolo.

        Table as a metonymy for eating: la tavola (WTF?!)

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 hours ago

          What’s worse is that even in languages with common ancestry, the gendered pronouns are not necessarily the same - the same thing can be male or female across a border.