• Snoopy
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, It’s very hard to imagine a world without gender. A story without man and woman, would a crazy challenge :D

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      1 year ago

      But inanimate objects? I remember hearing a story about a Russian (Soviet) machine that is a “He”, not a ship “Her”

      I guess we humans do tend to personify stuff

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        The base language for all of those is proto-indo-european, which was gendered. Finno-urgic and turkic families are not, for example. The mother tongue for Germanic, Slavic, and Romantic languages originally gendered both nouns and adjectives. Persian, which shares those roots, not only got rid of that but also gendered pronouns.

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        Yeah always, we create talking stones and trees 😁

        Talking stone