Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats.

• SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Sounds good” in language is usually something you’re used to hearing, so it “sounds good” because you’ve already heard it that way & are used to it. Doesn’t help one lock for those not already deeply immersed in hearing the language routinely.

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is why I love Lemmy. Linguistics from a cat post!

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.

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• MarieMarion@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a French speaker, I stg your genders for LE sun and LA moon don’t make a lick of sense, and sound really wrong.
  DER Sonne is obviously a guy. Goes to the gym every day, lifts weights, big muscles, maybe a bandana. Picture a ladies’ man from 1985 in a beach town, and that’s him. And DIE Mund is the protectress of women.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Der Tür” sounds awful, you make a lot of sense

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