MiQuenDroid 5,059 Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, Pennywise said: My native language doesn't have gender or gendered pronouns so I was like "wat" for a second It's a big problem in french. All I ever wanted was love... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Where is LG7 3,720 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 2 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said: Miss Rona getting the pronoun and recognition she deserves from the French people. she doesnt deserve anything for ruining the era Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoanSPW 186 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Curunir said: COVID-19 is actually the name of the disease, and since the word for disease in French (maladie) is feminine, they decided to change it to that so it would be technically correct. The virus is still masculine though (le coronavirus) But then cancer is also a disease and we say "le cancer" not "la cancer". Same for AIDS. So it doesn’t really make much more sense. Don’t know why they changed it tbh, I’m so used to say "le covid" that I keep saying it like that anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCARTPOP 5,921 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 le because all men are viruses! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 55,044 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Interesting map from Reddit that correlates with this thread. In my language we have 3 genders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaLuna 12,732 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 5 hours ago, Trillion Reasons said: Why feminine? Coronavirus, virus, isn't it masculine? I'm just asking, nothing personal. It's because it refers to "la maladie à coronavirus", the keyword being maladie, which is feminine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curunir 7,510 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 4 hours ago, LoanSPW said: But then cancer is also a disease and we say "le cancer" not "la cancer". Same for AIDS. So it doesn’t really make much more sense. Don’t know why they changed it tbh, I’m so used to say "le covid" that I keep saying it like that anyway. There isn't a single part of French that makes sense Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmar 22,038 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 4 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said: Interesting map from Reddit that correlates with this thread. In my language we have 3 genders. Like the top comment in that reddit thread says, this is about grammatical genders (arbitrary groups that nouns fall into), which doesn't necessarily mean that its pronouns do the same thing. English has 3 "genders" in its 3rd person singular pronouns (he vs. she, plus a non-human 'it'), but Turkish, marked the same color on this map, only has o as a pronoun with no gender distinctions in it at all, even for humans. Plus there's standard Mandarin, where the 3rd person singular pronoun tā is used for both male and female people, but in writing, the s/he distinction is made. It's complicated stuff. In other linguistic ranting nobody asked for, perhaps because the final /d/ in covid is pronounced in French, it 'sounds' like a feminine noun, which tend to end in consonants in the modern language (and would be spelled covide otherwise.) Masculine words, or forms of words, in French tend to lack the final consonant of their feminine counterparts (albeit with exception, as all natural languages are wont to have.) This is, of course, more in line with how it is spoken, not how it's written. Although la maladie à covid makes sense too. 俺の勝利は揺るぎない Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reject False Icons 4,751 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Even in Spanish sounds weird La coronavirus I’m enjoying this Romance languages discussion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varys 30,878 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 4 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said: Interesting map from Reddit that correlates with this thread. In my language we have 3 genders. this is not correct Banned 04/19/2020 - 04/19/2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 55,044 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, Varys said: this is not correct Why do you say that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varys 30,878 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 minute ago, FfFfFfFF said: Why do you say that? it colored flanders red and we speak dutch. we need to have the same colour as the netherlands Banned 04/19/2020 - 04/19/2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 55,044 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 8 minutes ago, Varys said: it colored flanders red and we speak dutch. we need to have the same colour as the netherlands Aren't there regional differences on the usage of genders? I assume this could have been the reason. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varys 30,878 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 7 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said: Aren't there regional differences on the usage of genders? I assume this could have been the reason. No not really. There is difference in accents and vocabulary but not pronoun genders. its like the difference between american and english english Banned 04/19/2020 - 04/19/2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 55,044 Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 @Varys This comments explains the issue. It seems that it does stem from regional/ dialect differences https://www.reddit.com/r/Map****/comments/i71ru1/genders_in_languages_across_the_world/g0zgwcf/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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