"but I used to think on this and wonder why all the strong, positive, and creative words seemed to be assigned the grammatical masculine gender"
Words that are grammical feminine in French : strength (la force), creativity (la créativité), freedom/liberty (la liberté), equality (l'égalité), life (la vie), death (la mort), knowledge (la mort), improvement (l'amélioration)... I don't know where your affirmation comes from.
Caroline
2011/12/30 Johannes Rohr johannes.rohr@wikimedia.de
Am 30.12.2011 03:13 schrieb "Sarah Stierch" sarah.stierch@gmail.com:
Hi folks,
While a discussion was taking place on this list about gender neutrality
and language, Victor (User:victorgrigas) and I were having a conversation about it via email. Victor decided to create a page about "what language is Wikipedia?"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia
Hopefully you will contribute to your own and other languages.
Interesting mention about Russian Wikipedia, it states that they refer
to Wikipedia as a female,
Sure. Same in German. In Slavic languages, most nouns ending in -a or -ya are female, in German, it is somewhat similar. There is absolutely nothing special about this. In Ukrainian, even the word for 'human' is female: liudyna. But I doubt that this says much about culture or society..
Johannes
similar to how in English we refer to ships as women.
Aweee...even Klingon is featured }:) (How sentimental!)
-Sarah
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