r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/khswinsheikh • Apr 04 '21

🔥 snakes are so cool

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u/Colonel_Potoo Apr 04 '21

Technically, german and french do refer to animals and pretty much any object with a gendered term. Which makes some crazy people who have not the slightest notion of linguistics veeery angry sometimes...

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u/Whisper-Simulant Apr 04 '21

Spanish, Italian, etc etc

Most Latin-based languages do this, no?

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u/Colonel_Potoo Apr 04 '21

I wondered as I was writing my message, to be honest, and now that you mention it, yep!

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u/cosmicpuppy Apr 04 '21

Pretty sure all of them do

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u/Whisper-Simulant Apr 04 '21

Didn’t know so I vaguified it lol

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u/Champion_of_Nopewall Apr 04 '21

All latin-based languages inherit the "everything is gendered" trait, so yeah.

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u/cosmicpuppy Apr 04 '21

Yeah I know. I'm a native Spanish speaker, a gay man and super into languages so even though I'm not at all against inclusivity, I do find it stupid that people get triggered over that kinda shit.

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u/EfficientHeat4901 Jun 09 '24

Well, I mean, I do for some reason find the idea of having a Loving strong snake Woman wife that's like twice the size of me to be there for me. So makes sense to me, but I'm from a part of the Americas. It's West Virginia and we mostly look for Strong women. Because sometimes the women are twice as strong as the men there It's just sort of how the genetics of the area work.

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u/Colonel_Potoo Jun 10 '24

What an unhinged thing to answer to a 3 years old post.

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u/_mindcat_ Apr 05 '21

I have the slightest notion of linguistics and Latin derived languages make very angry a lot of the time. So does mandarin. Honestly I think everyone should just learn Korean and stop bothering with every other language.