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Foreign language classes in high school creates gender abolitionists
It certainly fuels the flames.
Once you start asking why the hell the french have to gender everything, you start asking why we have to gender anything.
It's all a construct!
French is wild, but it’s actually pretty easy to remember genders for appliances in particular. Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender. Who could misgender a swamp cooler or a blender?
Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender.
Lol what
You trying to tell me that you don’t know your toaster’s safe word?
Oh is that what that Cancel button is for?
No, you have to force the handle to the up position.
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Just switch to German, I know it's die Geschirrspülmaschine
Das ist die Waschmaschine! Setzen, sechs!
Not knowing any German I can't tell the difference between this being correct or your putting down "the water sloshing noise machine" with a German accent.
Germans: German is such a beautiful language!
German:
It's beautiful in its precision and how it constantly clears your throat
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What do you thin? It's conceptually a hole that gets wet!
What about a dryer?
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SEND THAT CUNT BACK TO HELL FROM WHENCE IT CAME
Telefrancais haunted my nightmares so badly as a child
C'mon, une machine a laver is obviously a girl! Unless you call it a lave-linge instead, in which case it's a boy.
La laveuse
Teacher: Time for the French, get your berets!
“Mark, please pass out the baguettes to the class. Only take one!”
It can be both ! You can either call it "un lave-linge" or "une machine à laver".
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Un baguette, une baguette, le la.
Il y a un truc qui peut vous servir dans cette situation là.
Dites juste deux baguettes.
C'est un peu plus cher mais en tout cas, il vaut la peine et vous aurez deux baguettes à la fin.
A baguette, a baguette, the a.
There is a trick that can help you in this situation.
Just say two baguettes.
It is a little more expensive but in any case, it is worth it and you will have two baguettes at the end.
I don't think the translator worked that well here, but I think it makes it funner lmao
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My native language is gendered but I still don't always know how I'm supposed to talk about male members of a species with a feminine name or vice versa.
"A person by the name of Mary was..." "Person" is masculine. Mary can hear me and I don't want to offend her. "Was" has a masculine and a feminine form.
I think the masculine form of "was" would be technically correct, but then do I have to use masculine pronouns? "A person by the name of Mary was there and he..." The real answer is to rephrase what I said to avoid awkward grammar.
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That's common in most Latin derived languages
in my Spanish (HS) class if I don't know I just guess based off of the vibes
I've guessed correctly more often than not
I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.
It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.
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The word for potato is my favorite. It’s so fancy and English just calls it a potato.
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A machine in french is feminine. It come from latin machina (μαχανά in Greek) which is feminine (-ina suffix is feminine). Washing is just a verb so it have no influence on the "gender".
A washing machine -> Une machine à laver
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This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.
Maybe it's a trans washing machine, you shouldn't assume its gender. /j
Washing Machines are girls for some reason... same as dryers
In France, "lave-linge" and "machine à laver" are equally common. The first is masculine and the second feminine. For dryers, "sèche-linge" is definitely most common, and is masculine. Of course this might be very different in Quebec or other french-speaking regions.
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