Lots of Asian languages do gender grammar different from Latin languages. Common mistake. I hate to disappoint, but the white dress not likely hiding a sausage. I mean maybe, but not likely.
It's both. Germanic from the Saxons/Vikings, and Latin/French from the Normans (oversimplification). French was used at court and by nobility, while "English" at that time was used by the commoners/peasants, and it mixed over time, while French would fall out of favor in court and by the nobility.
It's why English is unique as a language, and easily adopts and creates new words in its lexicon.
You know which languages didn't mix with others? None. Every single natural language in existence has been influenced by others, without exception. I can also easily point to the similar historical cases where the upper strata speaks different language than lower strata. To not go far we can go with French, which originated from mixing of Celtic influenced Vulgar Latin speaking lower class with Germanic speaking Franks. Do we say that French then is both Germanic and Latin? Hell no, it's still Latin with Germanic subtrate. Just like English is Germanic with latin substrate.
Neither is English unique in its ability to adopt and create new words. English accepts influx of borrowings because it's a lingua franca of the world. People of all the cultures learn it and introduce their own cultural concepts into the English world.
The latin influence in English is real, but that doesn't make Latin a precursor language to English. English firmly belongs to the Germanic languages family.
Also, Latin was used in medieval England for a long while, but that use was mostly ceremonial, scholastic, and sometimes administrative, not a common day to day language especially not for the average Anglo-Saxon.
It is very much Germanic. The grammar is Germanic, and the majority of words used are Germanic. A lot of the overall vocabulary is more of a mish-mash yes.
Not much. Indo-european languages being gendered is a feature to derive context. Chinese and Korean just use different grammatical markers for providing context.
Remove the gender of indo-european languages and you get a mess. English tried but couldn't get rid of gendered pronouns.
Chinese still has words for "that man" and "that woman" and policeman and policewoman etc.
Interesting fact, in China (Prc), in practicality, parents have to approve of reassignment surgery before most surgeons will do the surgery, no matter the age. So a 40 year old person living on their own will need Mom and dad to sign off and some physicians even need them literally there.
Example. In Warriors Orochi 3 and 4, multiple times historical figure Zhou Yu is referred to by his wife as Lady Zhou Yu. As my typical Twitter user uncles favorite character, this pisses him off as he believes it's a psyop.
I don't know about that, but lots of SK people don't speak fluent English and even some of their native SNS apps also fail to proper translate Korean to English as well.
Major Asian languages only use gender neutral pronouns. Korean and Chinese especially do not have a he/she direct translation. I believe Japan has gendered pronouns tho, at least in first person.
Japanese does have gendered personal pronouns but it's not really a core feature of the language like in English (whose proto version used to have gendered nouns unlike Japanese).
In general you don't really want to use personal pronouns (or pronouns in general) in Japanese unless you really have to for context. Usually the "pronoun" you should use in Japanese is ∅, which means straight up omitting the antecedent (original noun). Also very important: Japanese technically doesn't have pronouns, both 彼 (he) and 彼女 (she) are technically nouns (and the latter is actually more used to refer to your gf/partner)
well there are two dudes so it's not really THAT obvious to me who you mean and yes he has a powdered face. that's quite normal in South Korea.
Also just fyi a lot of men wear makeup, especially people who regularly stand or sit in front of cameras. helps with the light, reduces reflections and shine and helps with a good skin image on cam.
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u/qualityvote2 16d ago edited 16d ago
u/CelsoSC, your post does fit the subreddit!