In my Communicating Diversity class today we discussed how in North America we have "he" and "she", and no neutral term. We discussed how our society is constructed in a way that we have specific things we want to fit into certain categories.
When I learned about this I thought about my German side. What I learned about the German language is that they use more than masculine, feminine but also neutral. (They assign this to objects as well).
Example:
A table (Der Tisch) Male
A car (Das Auto) Neutral
A fork (Die Gable) Female
Example:
A table (Der Tisch) Male
A car (Das Auto) Neutral
A fork (Die Gable) Female
Words that end in "er" are usually masculine, and words that end in "ung" are feminine. Foreign words are often neutral.
I thought I would share this because it showed me how diverse languages and societies are.
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