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Sailor65x1

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4. The only truth there,

Tue May 23, 2017, 10:05 AM

May 2017

is that the languages are gendered. The idea that the feminine forms within the language are somehow "Diminutive, " or the language sexist, is false (Male and female types are very arbitrarily assigned to the nouns, which leads away from sexist stereotyping, not toward it.). Which of them do you speak, and are basing your theory on?

Interestingly though, Romance languages will have a much harder time trying to accommodate a crazy pallette of new pronouns and gender behaviors than English does, because of the gendered vocabulary.

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Are the Latin based languages such as Spanish sexist? [View all] Ligyron May 2017 OP

there's some truth to that, but a lot of times it's arbitrary, could be "green vs blue" unblock May 2017 #1

I don't speak any of the Romance languages... JayhawkSD May 2017 #2

I don't speak them well either, lol. Ligyron May 2017 #6

I'm not sure I see where "the feminine is always diminutive, i.e., the lesser." Iggo May 2017 #3

The only truth there, Sailor65x1 May 2017 #4

Yeah, I don't speak any of them well. Ligyron May 2017 #7

Generally linguists refer the language distinction as "gender" rock May 2017 #5

As a teacher of Spanish, I'd say it is sexist. Lifelong Protester May 2017 #8

Not just the latin-based...Eastern European languages (Slavic) have them too whathehell Dec 2017 #9

Language evolves. LWolf Jan 2018 #10

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