French is wild, but it’s actually pretty easy to remember genders for appliances in particular. Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender. Who could misgender a swamp cooler or a blender?
WHY
Submitted 5 days ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Generally, the more attractive the appliance, the less questionable its gender.
Lol what
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You trying to tell me that you don’t know your toaster’s safe word?
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There is a say in france along the lines that the more bad something is the higher the probability it’s feminin.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just switch to German, I know it’s die Geschirrspülmaschine
ninja@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Not knowing any German I can’t tell the difference between this being correct or your putting down “the water sloshing noise machine” with a German accent.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Germans: German is such a beautiful language!
German:
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s beautiful in its precision and how it constantly clears your throat
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
That’s a dishwasher, a “washing machine” is for clothes
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s a machine that washes, close enough
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
That’s right it’s das Kleidungumnassengerät
pedz@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Ok then. What’s the gender of Nutella?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That wasn’t covered in German class
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Clearly it’s dieras Nutella
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 4 days ago
At least in my part of Austria it’s usually „der Geschirrspüler“
Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
What do you thin? It’s conceptually a hole that gets wet!
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
What about a dryer?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 days ago
It’s conceptually Ben Shapiro’s wife.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ur mom!
fargeol@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Stamets@lemmy.world 5 days ago
SEND THAT CUNT BACK TO HELL FROM WHENCE IT CAME
Telefrancais haunted my nightmares so badly as a child
Ethalis@jlai.lu 5 days ago
C’mon, une machine a laver is obviously a girl! Unless you call it a lave-linge instead, in which case it’s a boy.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
La laveuse
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Un baguette, une baguette, le la.
Il y a un truc qui peut vous servir dans cette situation là.
Dites juste deux baguettes.
C’est un peu plus cher mais en tout cas, il vaut la peine et vous aurez deux baguettes à la fin.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
A baguette, a baguette, the a.
There is a trick that can help you in this situation.
Just say two baguettes.
It is a little more expensive but in any case, it is worth it and you will have two baguettes at the end.
I don’t think the translator worked that well here, but I think it makes it funner lmao
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Teacher: Time for the French, get your berets on!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
“Mark, please pass out the baguettes to the class. Only take one!”
samus12345@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Achctually in french they write ah ah ah.
Very disturbing.
yopyop@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It can be both ! You can either call it “un lave-linge” or “une machine à laver”.
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, it would be nice if people stopped assuming it gender.
Llufollis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
A machine in french is feminine. It come from latin machina (μαχανά in Greek) which is feminine (-ina suffix is feminine). Washing is just a verb so it have no influence on the “gender”.
A washing machine -> Une machine à laver
iegod@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Close but wrong. It’s because washing is feminine.
Llufollis@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
All those years of school and lecturing from my teachers only to discover it was all lies… thank anyway I guess.
NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Sadly true, Its like an on pourpouse languaje setting
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That nice dirty ass
logi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And if yo get it wrong you’ll be forever banned from blahaj.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Can we not bring these stupid, lazy jokes into Lemmy please?
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
mistakes = ok
purposefully using the wrong pronoun = not okis it that difficult? I don’t understand why you’re so upset about a gender diverse instance enforcing their rules 🤷♀️
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
in my Spanish (HS) class if I don’t know I just guess based off of the vibes
I’ve guessed correctly more often than not
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.
It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.
wisely@feddit.org 4 days ago
Yeah as an English speaker using neuter seems very natural. Modern loan words such as from IT are often neuter for that reason.
However in general, words are statistically most likely to be masculine and least likely to be neuter. So if the word ending isn’t obviously feminine and it’s not a category such as IT that has a common gender you may be better off guessing masculine.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 4 days ago
Doesn’t it depend on if it’s a top load or bottom load model?
letsgo@lemm.ee 4 days ago
These days with everything being LGBTQIAOMGWTFBBQ++++++++, no, not even remotely.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I think power bottom loaders are a thing now
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
My native language is gendered but I still don’t always know how I’m supposed to talk about male members of a species with a feminine name or vice versa.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 days ago
i thought gendered languages had two genders for words like “person” so you could make the swap when the gender is known
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Most words that I can think of for various categories of people do have two genders, although in many cases the feminine version sounds very awkward to me, almost like the “trix” suffix in English.
AfricanGrey@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
ITT: Canadians butchering the French language.
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s common in most Latin derived languages
wisely@feddit.org 4 days ago
This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 4 days ago
The word for potato is my favorite. It’s so fancy and English just calls it a potato.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 days ago
SleepyBear@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My highschool french class always loved the word for “squirrel”, “pomegranate”, and of course the ever popular “seal in the shower” combo for extra fun.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
to be fair, that’s a modern take. in antiquity it was so ignoble it was given the generic name for a fruit/vegetable.
a modern version might be more akin to “dirt thing”
Ashiette@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Potatoes weren’t introduced to europeans in the antiquity
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Je suis enchanté
Où est le bibliothèque?
Voilà mon passport
Ah, Gérard Depardieu
Baguette, hon hon hon
Baguette, hon hon hon (hon hon) hon hon hon!
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I don’t know a single lick of French but somehow my brain knew this is the intro to Foux Da Fafa, a song I haven’t listened to in over a decade
Onionguy@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I’m a simple man, I see Flight of the Conchords, I upvote.
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Washing Machines are girls for some reason… sme as dryers
GrosPapatouf@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In France, “lave-linge” and “machine à laver” are equally common. The first is masculine and the second feminine. For dryers, “sèche-linge” is definitely most common, and is masculine. Of course this might be very different in Quebec or other french-speaking regions.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Just to confirm for people who don’t know it’s not the actual physical object that has a gender but the word
Koyaanisqatsi@lemm.ee 5 days ago
This is sponsored by Big Gender to sell us more gender. /j
Spoilt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Protip : french is misogynist
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Me who don’t want to assume someone’s gender: starts speaking Chinese (because “他” is a gender neutral pronoun)
More reasons why Latin based language sucks. We should make Chinese the lingua franca of the world… 😉
zephorah@lemm.ee 5 days ago
La Casa vs El hospital. What determines the gender of each? Spelling is great, but this piece boggles the mind.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Girl, easy.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In Hebrew, the word for “stone” is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for “rock” is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Je ne suis pas Francais
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you’re not sure just guess femminine, that seema to be the case more often than not
Corno@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Fake. If that was me, those baguettes would be gone within 0.3 nanoseconds.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Reminds me of the time when I forgot if the Latin word for bedroom is -a or -um… (it was cubiculum btw, apparently all rooms are gender neutral)
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Foreign language classes in high school creates gender abolitionists
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It certainly fuels the flames.
Once you start asking why the hell the french have to gender everything, you start asking why we have to gender anything.
can@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It’s all a construct!