ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 14 days agoThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down147
arrow-up1153arrow-down1imageThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 14 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-214 days agoThat works too. Perhaps even better than calling them “genders”, as if this sort of system was exclusively related to social gender. (Often a grammatical gender / noun class system has nothing to do with social gender; cue to Bantu languages.)
I like calling them “noun classes”
That works too. Perhaps even better than calling them “genders”, as if this sort of system was exclusively related to social gender. (Often a grammatical gender / noun class system has nothing to do with social gender; cue to Bantu languages.)