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minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoIn Italian tables are gender fluid. You can have “la tavola” e “il tavolo”. Surfing? It’s a female: la tavola da surf. Eating? Male: il tavolo. Table as a metonymy for eating: la tavola (WTF?!)
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoWhat’s worse is that even in languages with common ancestry, the gendered pronouns are not necessarily the same - the same thing can be male or female across a border.
In Italian tables are gender fluid. You can have “la tavola” e “il tavolo”.
Surfing? It’s a female: la tavola da surf.
Eating? Male: il tavolo.
Table as a metonymy for eating: la tavola (WTF?!)
What’s worse is that even in languages with common ancestry, the gendered pronouns are not necessarily the same - the same thing can be male or female across a border.