Same with Spanish. Learning Italian was significantly easier than for other people I know for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that the genders are like 95% the same. It helps if you know some Latin, i guess.
Agree on the fuckedness of using neutral or degendered language in romance languages, too.
Its funny having French as your native tongue and having internalised all that. Like obviously a machine is feminine.
It can make for fun play on words, imagery and parallels, but it also sucks ass for neutral or degendered language…
RATM are cancelled.
I think this is basically the position of left-neoliberal “more women war criminals” types
Spanish is more woke cuz El lavarropas
In latinoamerica it’s La lavadora
Clothes washer transitioned when she moved across the ocean, now she goes by washer.
Yer calling Argentina crakkkers?
Sometimes it leaks into my English. I default to saying he, the dog.
Same with Spanish. Learning Italian was significantly easier than for other people I know for a lot of reasons, but one of them is that the genders are like 95% the same. It helps if you know some Latin, i guess.
Agree on the fuckedness of using neutral or degendered language in romance languages, too.