weird language thing I only realised recently: German has three genders for words (masculine/feminine/neuter represented by der/die/das) with no coherent rule, you just have to know.
But using the diminutive always changes to the neuter ("das"). Which is why the German word for "girl" is grammatically neuter.
And this concludes today's "useless language fact" section of our program.
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Yes, and a swan is male, which made the finale of Lohengrin slightly weird for me. In Czech, not only swans are female, they are the symbol of all femininity.
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@whot Spanish bridge vs German bridge. What's the difference one might ask? The German one is feminine and the Spanish one is masculine (and Czech one too). I keep misgendering German words all the time :-)
https://www.athingforwords.com/words/can-language-shape-thought/
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@whot it is the same with other languages. You have to learn spelling for every word in English, prenounciation have no logic (e.g. I would expect similar prenounciation for Kansas and Arkansas). There are even spelling contests to prove you can memorize it..
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@whot I... never noticed.
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