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Originally Posted by NBTurbo2000
What offends me is that the French "gender" for vehicles is female, as evidenced by the gender tense used "la", "cette", etc. Why does a modern language assign genders to inanimate non-living objects? Not only is gender irrelevant to a car, it is impossible to implement!
In fact, in our modern world, gender needs to be totally irrelevant except for procreation! That is its only function!!!
Whew, feel better now. Off soapbox.
Sue  |
Well, you might as well whine about Spanish, Italian, Portugeuse, and a host of other languaguages that have genderized noun forms. It comes from having no nonspecific pronouns in the tongue. Besides, French and Italian are arguably the most beautiful languages to the ear.
Alors, c'est la langue le plus belle!
If you want to rant about some sexist cause, please do so in Hot Topics. That's the place for it, not here. Tilting at windmills won't get you anywhere anyway.
P.S. - "Only function"? Not even close - what about writing your name in the snow?