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Languages and Linguistics

TxGuitar

(4,289 posts) Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:41 PM Oct 2023

Regarding gender of words in other languages [View all]

Thinking mainly about Romance languages, since I've had Spanish and Latin classes.

Before the study of linguistics/philology, would a Spaniard have thought of a house (la casa) as a feminine thing, or a room (el cuarto) as a masculine thing? Or is gendering of words the result of just scientific nomenclature?

thanks, and I'll hang up and listen

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Regarding gender of words in other languages [View all] TxGuitar Oct 2023 OP

Tuned in, listening for replies on the matter intrepidity Oct 2023 #1

Different languages assign different genders to things, and Ocelot II Oct 2023 #2

Interesting. As someone who has tried to learn several languages before traveling, spooky3 Oct 2023 #3

I had a linguistics professor who once said cachukis Oct 2023 #4

I heard a talk about this RSherman Oct 2023 #5

"Gender" is often phrased "agreement class". Igel Nov 2023 #6

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