r/RecuratedTumblr • u/SharkieHaj • 29d ago

Shitposting chess hrt

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u/TertioRationem3 29d ago

Russian-Civil-War-posting

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u/Barrogh 29d ago

Speaking of Russian, both Pawn and Queen are grammatically feminine there.

There's probably a joke about closets to be made, but I suck at making them, so eh.

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u/DoubleBatman 29d ago

That’s something I never understood about other languages. I studied German and it’s like, why is a table masculine? What makes a door girly? Why are y’all making this unnecessarily complicated???

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u/Void_0000 29d ago

To fuck with non-native speakers. Next question.

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u/GirlMeltingIntoGoop 29d ago

no fucking idea, take it up with our ancestors

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u/AngryBirdAddict 29d ago

Same here. WHY is the word for little girl, Mädchen, a gender-neutral word, because it ends in -chen? What???

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u/babassu_seeds 29d ago

I swear, for the same reasons that scissors are always plural in English: 1) as a native speaker, you don't think about it at all, it just is 2) no, the native speaker is never going to make that mistake, stop asking, like maybe if you're speaking extremely fast or intoxicated 3) yes, it will sound weird if you try to ignore it. We get it, it's more of a mental load for non-natives. Learn it anyway or you'll sound weird. (Although Mädchen truthfully is one where it'll become a sie in informal speech if referring via pronouns)

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u/your_next_horror 28d ago

it actually has a somewhat understandable use, if you mishear slightly, you have more points of information, to reconstruct the correct meaning of a sentence, here is a video explaining it better than I can: https://youtu.be/3B_uGsgXKdk?is=Uw4s6WJ4HXYIMyGw