>in his language nouns have genders

>>79087165
>My friend's teacher and the landlord of the dog's owner living next door were having a conversation.
Now please tell me the gender of each person

>>79088077
what if they're genderfluid?

>>79087165
Wow that is pathetic Finnbro

>>79088077
i'm sure you would know

>>79088106
Then tell me what's between each person's legs

>>79088199
Well, the landlord is a guy.

>>79087165
And?
>>79088077
But it's english there is not possible understand.

>>79088077
why would you want to know their genders anyway you sexist piece of dirt

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>>79088106
then you say "it" because they don't have a gender

>>79088308
It can also implicitly be a woman

>>79088386
You'd use "landlady" in order to refer to a woman. At least you would if you wanted to use proper English.

>>79088077
why the fuck does it matter?

>>79088077
For example in russian you can understand gender of teacher. Because there is special gender ending for words.

>>79088077
in spanish you cant talk about "a friend" without defining sex. its either el amigo(man) or la amiga(girl). same with the landlord. same with the dogs owner. even the dog you say either perro(male) perra(female) and conversation is female. la conversación.

>>79088445
that's one thing. languages like france have genders for cars of buildings

>>79088433
>what does implicit mean

>>79087165
>his language's nouns don't have genders
lol i knew it finnish is a brainlet language for little babies

>>79088485
Then why the fuck is Los amigos (the friends boys only) and los amigos (the friends boys and girls mixed) the same?

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>his language has gender pronouns instead of a glorius gender fluid O.

>>79088521
autism doesnt allow for this

>>79088445
Russian is simple because most female words end with "-a" or "-ya".

I still haven't found a pattern in German, however.

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In Spanish "the art" is masculine, while "the arts" are feminine.

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>>79088616
In Lithuanian "the fatherland" is feminine.

In german "the girl" is neuter.

>>79088697
>In german "the girl" is neuter.
Because girl is the diminutive form of maid and all diminutives are neuter...

>>79088524
Because the masculine is also the gender neutral pronoun, don't let anybody told you something else

>>79088732
Thanks, that makes... Well, it doesn't makes sense, but now I know.

>>79088077
friend - assumed to be masculine
teacher - assumed to be masculine
landlord - innately masculine
dog - innately masculine
owner - assumed to be masculine
door - neuter
conversation - neuter

>>79088499
We have genders for all objects like all Latin languages

A language that does not have gender is a crippled language

>>79088840
teacheress?

>>79088840
Door is feminine

>>79088840
>assumed to be masculine
That's pretty sexist 2bh

>>79088848
filnnish has zero genders, not even for pronouns. leave humanity behind.

>>79088848
Nonsense.

English has the best of both worlds: no excess baggage for genders of inanimates, and has the poetic/stylistic ability to give gender to inanimates, making them poetic, and to remove gender from animates, making them less personable.

> the Sun shone, her rays heating... (poetic, personable)
> the baby screamed and screamed, it made a terrible noise (less poetic, impersonable)

>>79088840
Ugh... you're worldview is very misogynist, anon.

>>79087165

In my language even verbs and adjectives have genders.

>>79088870
>>79088891
>>79088905
Classically, all persons were assumed masculine until told otherwise.

>>79088888
Not in English.

>>79088922
Not your verbs per se, but the subjects/attributives of them have gender.

>>79088902
I really like the English grammar. But your spelling and pronunciation are kinda shit.

>>79087165
>Not giving genders to chairs, computers, carpets, hands or shirts

What kind of Mongoloid are you?

>>79088950
>Classically, all persons were assumed masculine until told otherwise.
Finnish has the same for professions, but it doesn't apply unless you're reading text from the 1700s or something. There's a suffix you can add to make it female, but no one uses it. Maybe for actresses.

>>79088902
These are relics of old English, which was closer to German and not crippled...
How can you say it's not crippled if you're using the same word for both singular and plural of the 2nd person pronoun "you"

>>79088981
>I want to fuck the chair

Girl and boy are neutral in Greek, but man and woman are what you'd expect.

>>79089051
that would be gay, though

>>79089015
I agree with you on the 'you' point. 'Thou' should come back.

>>79088977
I agree that the spelling and pronunciation are terrible, but this is an effect of having industrialised before the Great Vowel Shifts of 16-19th centuries. The industrialisation of printing meant printers had to settle on a set spelling of words, when at the same time, people began to speak wildly differently from them.

Other countries went through the industrial revolution later and hence their spelling was cemented with their current pronunciations.

Our current spellings are a good way, also, to look into the etymology of a word.

>>79089012
One of the older words for 'teacher' was 'master' (as in 'schoolmaster'), and so any female teacher was a 'mistress' or 'schoolmistress'.

>>79088077
If you need to specify it you just say a male teacher or a female teacher for example. but that's in the case you actually would need to somehow specify it.

>>79088902
As said Hans there >>79089015 these are relics of Old English

>The Sun is feminine
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>79088894
Cute <3

>>79089106
>Kėdė, -ė, feminine

You have weird chairs in Germany.

>>79089136
I should really read up on the great vowel shift.

>>79087165
We are in the process of removing them to simplify the language for immigrants.

>>79089179
But that's the beauty of English: any inanimate can be any gender you like in order to suit the mood.

> the sun shines, its rays ... (normal)
> the sun shines, his rays ... (poetic, masc.)
> the sun shines, her rays ... (poetic, fem.)

>>79089179
>Hier kommt die Sonne
stop disrespecting mother nature
>Der Mond
btw

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>>79089267
>disrespecting Indo-European Solar Patriarchy

*unsheat gladius*

>>79089468
Saulė, -ė, feminine.

Saulė yra mūsų visų motina.

'Sun' in Sanskrit is 'sūrya', masculine.

>>79089576
>Sanskrit
POO

>>79089498
Sol, Latin, masculine
Ἥλιος, Greek, masculine
Sonno/Sunno, Celtic, masculine

And as said >>79089576 Sūrya, Sanskrit, masculine

>>79089844
:\

>>79088445
Not as easy in Polish especially when it comes to professions. There's no "female" word for professions like doctor, professor, director (as in head of something, not movie director), judge or chairman/president and many more.

>>79089468
>das Mädchen
>das
>Mädchen

>>79088697
>In Lithuanian "the fatherland" is feminine.

In Spanish fatherland is feminine as well.

>>79087165
>his brain cant handle complex functions

>>79090028
same

>>79090022
>Die Magd
>Das Mägdelein

>>79090295
But why does a 'little girl' becomes neuter? She is still a girl, just a little one.

>>79090528
* become

Also, if there is a 'little girl' in your company, and someone begins to talk about her in the third person; when she is referred to as 'it', does she not become offended?

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>>79090528
>But why does a 'little girl' becomes neuter?

Because Germans have greater moral standards and aren't into lolicon unlike (((English))) weeboos

>>79090774
> le vagin
Pourquoi?

>>79089143
no shit, sherlock

>>79090563
>das Kind (the child)
Why should a child be offended?
If you're referring to a young woman, you'll call her
>junge Dame (young lady)

>>79090528
Because all diminutives are neuter in German.

>>79087165
>his language doesn't allow for the application of any linguistic object onto any linguistic object
lmao

>>79088735
hen youre talking about a group, yes. Not when youre refering to singulars like the chief, it HAS to be el jefe or la jefa.

Its not my fault if your language look like a stupid barbarian

>>79092986
> Why should a child be offended?
Are Germans this heartless?

>>79093029
Even when that noun has natural gender?

So inanimate objects having an arbitrary gender is 'superior', while an actual girl not having *her natural gender* is fine too.

These gender-using languages are arbitrary and outdated.