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!
Not quite deprecated but merged with the masculine, once the case system was eroded enough. That’s one of the reasons Romance languages typically default to the masculine, if you “force” a genderless word (like a verb) into a noun role.
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!
It was deprecated in most Latin based languages though
Not quite deprecated but merged with the masculine, once the case system was eroded enough. That’s one of the reasons Romance languages typically default to the masculine, if you “force” a genderless word (like a verb) into a noun role.