• Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz
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    10 days ago

    Idk about other languages, but in Spanish “male/female” is reserved for animals*. So it’d be freaking weird to use it in English.

    ^*it can be used for people but not in 99% of contexts.^

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 days ago

      Sure, but there are other languages in the world. In Bangla, for example, we formally use different words for different genders of animals. But people often add the equivalent of boy/girl in front of the animal name to signify its gender. For us, there are no hard rules for the usage of these adjectives/nouns.