ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 18 days agoThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1191
arrow-up1191imageThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 18 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-217 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.)