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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by oblio on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:27AM (#14219153)
Heh. You have no idea. English doesn't even have proper genders. You're on easy mode.

If I say: "Your manager is good.", it's neutral. You can't figure out if I'm talking about a man or a woman without something additional.

In Romanian, and I guess in most Latin languages, no such luck. Except for a handful of neologisms, everything clearly mentions the gender, for better of for worse.

The direct translation in Romanian: "Managerul tău e bun" is masculine (both the noun and the adjective make that obvious).

The whole neutral gender movement in English sounds kind of funny for us... we could try to do it Romanian but it would be like lobotomizing the language.

Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by vacri on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:48AM (#14219313)
A Bulgarian colleague of mine said that even surnames are gendered - her surname is Nakova, her father's is Nakov. It plays merry hell with admin software from anglo nations which assume surnames aren't gendered, apparently.
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by viraptor on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:59AM (#14219394)
Same in Czech, which I believe still enforces the -ova ending. (Please correct me if that changed)
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by phillc73 on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:04AM (#14219432)
Not just Bulgarian. I know Latvian surnames have the same concept. Probably others too.
Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by 3131s on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:51AM (#14220408)
Russian too, I'm pretty sure from watching years of tennis. Marat Safin, for example, and his sister Dinara Safina.