• @intelati
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    48 months 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

    • roguetrick
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      8 months ago

      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.

    • Snoopy
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      28 months ago

      Yeah always, we create talking stones and trees 😁

      Talking stone