English does have some gendered nouns. Mostly occupations or animals.
E.g. Waiter/Waitress, Ewe/Ram, etc…
**Edit**: ~~Sheep~~ -> Ewe
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I think English is the only Indo-European language from Europe that basically doesn’t have grammatical gender. Armenian doesn’t either apparently, but that depends on whether you consider Armenia to be a part of Europe. Afrikaans, the South African language derived from Dutch, apparently doesn’t either, but I don’t consider Afrikaans to be from Europe.
The history of English is fascinating. I was reading an article once that was trying to explain why English mostly lost features like gender and case. According to this article, Britain got invaded by a lot of Vikings and then they got invaded by the Norman French. These people eventually switched to speaking English, but their English was bad English and their bad English became our regular English. They also left a legacy in modern English vocabulary. There are tons of words that are Norse or French in origin in the language.
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If English has no gender then why are people arguing about their pronouns.
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Sure but doesnt non gendered language still have gender for countries sometimes? Sometimes countries are referred to as a she or he in english.
Thai usually uses they though
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Hungarian genders almost nothing. Even their pronouns don’t specify any gender. Pronouns for non-binary people are not an issue there because everyone uses the same ones regardless of gender. That said I would NOT want to be a gender-variant person in Hungary nowadays.
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Estonians have no sex and no future.
I_Am_Terry on
Hahaha what the fuck is this?
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*Technically* English is a gendered language.
English does have some gendered nouns. Mostly occupations or animals.
E.g. Waiter/Waitress, Ewe/Ram, etc…
**Edit**: ~~Sheep~~ -> Ewe
r/mapsthatcouldbealist
I think English is the only Indo-European language from Europe that basically doesn’t have grammatical gender. Armenian doesn’t either apparently, but that depends on whether you consider Armenia to be a part of Europe. Afrikaans, the South African language derived from Dutch, apparently doesn’t either, but I don’t consider Afrikaans to be from Europe.
The history of English is fascinating. I was reading an article once that was trying to explain why English mostly lost features like gender and case. According to this article, Britain got invaded by a lot of Vikings and then they got invaded by the Norman French. These people eventually switched to speaking English, but their English was bad English and their bad English became our regular English. They also left a legacy in modern English vocabulary. There are tons of words that are Norse or French in origin in the language.
If English has no gender then why are people arguing about their pronouns.
Sure but doesnt non gendered language still have gender for countries sometimes? Sometimes countries are referred to as a she or he in english.
Thai usually uses they though
Hungarian genders almost nothing. Even their pronouns don’t specify any gender. Pronouns for non-binary people are not an issue there because everyone uses the same ones regardless of gender. That said I would NOT want to be a gender-variant person in Hungary nowadays.
Estonians have no sex and no future.
Hahaha what the fuck is this?