> It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.
Ironically, you've just confirmed what GP said by confusing the concept of grammatical gender with the modern social studies concept of gender.
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by pseudalopex on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:47PM
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How? They used gender to mean social gender. So did I.
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by hprotagonist on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:23PM
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https://www.etymonline.com/word/gender
still, the grammatical sense predates the sex sense by a bit, and has always been around to mean “genre”. So you always have to disambiguate usage
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by pseudalopex on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:39PM
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Your point is unclear to me. Gender doesn't mean genre in contemporary English. And context is enough to distinguish grammatical gender from other meanings usually.
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by hprotagonist on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:19PM
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except when context is not enough; i.e., when a grammatical gender form applies to nouns that describe persons with social genders.
And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
Re:Reasons some languages are harder to learn
by pseudalopex on Sunday May 16, 2021 @09:51PM
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Nouns that describe persons with social genders have matching grammatical genders usually. And you have to distinguish when talking about both at once obviously.
> And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
Seems rare to me.
It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.