• teft@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    Gendered nouns aren’t that bad. The 6 grammatical cases are going to blow their fucking minds.

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      Last time I’ve counted them, it was 5: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Akkusative and Ablative. Do you also count Locative and Vocative?

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              6 days ago

              That depends on who you ask.

              Some linguists, such as Albert Thumb, argue that the vocative form is not a case but a special form of nouns not belonging to any case, as vocative expressions are not related syntactically to other words in sentences. Pronouns usually lack vocative forms.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocative_case

              It seems in English speaking countries it is treated like a case, in Germany it isn’t.

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                6 days ago

                I’m just shitposting, amigo. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

                The point stands that most english speakers would be confused by grammatical case since english doesn’t have that feature.

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    Explanation: Just a linguistics joke. “Trad” chuds often insist there are only two genders, and idolize Rome, without the first idea about Rome other than “Marble busts and strong jawed legions”.

    But the Latin language itself has three genders - masculine, feminine, and neuter!