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It makes no sense that "dress" and "perfume" are masculine in Spanish, amirite?
by Anonymous13 years ago
The gender of a word doesn't have anything to do with the actually meaning of the word, at least in Latin it doesn't.
by Anonymous13 years ago
Ha, yeah. Considering that the word for manliness, 'virtus', is feminine.
by Anonymous13 years ago
I know!! i was trying to think of that word but i wouldn't come to mind. You speak latin/are learning latin?
by Anonymous13 years ago
Mhmm. I just finished my second year with the language.
by Anonymous13 years ago
nice, im still in the first year
by Anonymous13 years ago
Although it has nothing to do with the meaning of the word, interestingly enough I found, grammatical gender can affect the speaker psychologically. For example, in Spanish, the word for bridge is masculine. In German, it's feminine. Experiments show Germans instinctively assign feminine qualities to them; case in point, show a German speaker a picture of a bridge and they're more likely to describe it as "elegant" or "slender." The Spanish lean more toward "strong" and the like. Very cool.
by Anonymous13 years ago
That's very interesting
by Anonymous13 years ago
thx<333
by Anonymous13 years ago
Tampon in french is masculine... wtf!
Who came up with these?
by Anonymous13 years ago
It tripped me out when I was learning, I wanted to say 'una vestida' not 'un vestido'. Then I realized Spanish was fucking confusing and learned German.
by Anonymous13 years ago
Isn't german even more confusing?! They talk as if they are spitting and are destroying their throats (no offfence)
by Anonymous13 years ago
One might say so, but I can't roll my r's, therefore making spanish FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE.
by Anonymous13 years ago
all i know is...puta >;]
and senor/senorita...and taco...and burriot (if those are spanish words) hahas :D
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