I think it was masculine, I heard a lot of people saying, “I got Covid Man.”
Comment on why
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoThere was a whole battle about whether covid was masculine or feminine. I think feminine won, probably because it sucked.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And a lot of people still say le covid because that’s how language works
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Feminine is what the Académie settled on, months after everyone settled on Masculine.
That institution holds some normative power with other institutions (e.g. some media outlets) but has utterly failed to impose its outdated and reactionary outlook to anyone but other reactionaries. They’re constantly coming out with revisions for words that reached common parlance years earlier.
So common usage is Le covid. If someone used the feminine I’d have to assume they unironically use the word “Wokisme”.