Discussion: Should Spanish gender rules be banned?

jonasha

Should Spanish gendered words (la _____ or el _____) be banned? Why does everything need a specific gender?

What about how when there's one boy in a group, the entire group is automatically masculine? That's sounds very patriarchal.

MaRy

it's the same in Italian, french, russian and 90% of languages

6 Apple St

el oh el no

Desire

No and if you think otherwise you're just plain annoying

Ina Garten

sure, do a complete grammatical overhaul on all of the renaissance languages to make some crybabies with half-shaved green hair feel more comfortable

paulyyyozd

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Originally posted by MaRy

it's the same in Italian, french, russian and 90% of languages

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english is one of the few languages in which nouns aren't specified by gender

Almodusa

It's not as serious tbh

karron0624

Its hard to pick up at first, but once you got it down you got it down.

Marvin

It just seems pointless tbh. English keeps it simple.

feelslikeadream

Most languages use gendered nouns. A centuries old tradition can't be changed by sjws sis.

LoKoPaNdA

English is the easiest language ever, good thing it is the world's most powerful language cause

Imagine poor English speakers having to learn a language with 15 cases like Finnish

LoKoPaNdA

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Originally posted by Ina Garten

sure, do a complete grammatical overhaul on all of the renaissance languages to make some crybabies with half-shaved green hair feel more comfortable

Ina

Jorq

Of course not.

Jotham

Just speak English instead

Obsession

I really don't think that's necessary, it's not that deep. If someone's really offended by a table being feminine in Spanish, they're doing way too much.

Luzianne

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Originally posted by Marvin

It just seems pointless tbh. English keeps it simple.

I agree.

AstroBall

Y'all with y'all English is so much more simple comments are actually simple.

And gender in Spanish and the other Romance languages doesn't correlate to the social construct of gender. It's system in place so that certain lingual ambiguities can be resolved within the language.

Some of those ambiguities occur frequently within English and the use of gender in language helps to prevent them.

Idontcareaboutyou

People are ignorant and associate grammatical gender with biological gender which is completely dumb.

For example, you could imagine people being offended because 'the girl' in German is neutral (das Mädchen) while the boy is masculine (der Junge) but it's actually that way because if it was feminine you could not distinguish it from the plural 'die Mädchen'.

Latinazza

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Originally posted by Ina Garten

sure, do a complete grammatical overhaul on all of the renaissance languages to make some crybabies with half-shaved green hair feel more comfortable

harsh.

And it's not only the Romance languages (I think that's what you meant by "Renaissance") that have genders. In German we have der (m), die (f), and das (for neutral). When people learn German they find that these pronouns are not even logical (for example, a young lady is "das" and a dog is der, but a cat is die, irrespective of their gender, and many more examples).

In a way, having these distinctions is what makes many languages quite beautiful. I cannot imagine Spanish the neutral "lo" or French without gender distinctions.

Doogle

Not Spanish being single out

Truly the best language of all time and the Queen of language