“Dangerous” was one of the adjectives the Spanish listed, not the German, so I suppose German women are just “fragile” and not “dangerously fragile” like T-Rex implies in panel five.
Not that it’s all gender stereotyping to begin with, but…
Yeah, that was an interesting experiment, but the published précis of it mentioned only the one word, “bridge”. It takes more than one tree to make a row. On the other hand, “thinkers” have been trying to show that there is a valid correlation between grammatical concord classes in European languages and semantics of inanimate objects, but with little agreement on the value of the claims. A multilingual friend of mine says that gendered nouns “poeticize” nature. Does the English habit of referring to ships (and whales) as “she” poeticize them?
Ida No over 4 years ago
You should see the crossover between Germany and Spain. It’s like the bridge is making love to itself, and it’s asking you to join in.
scyphi26 over 4 years ago
“Dangerous” was one of the adjectives the Spanish listed, not the German, so I suppose German women are just “fragile” and not “dangerously fragile” like T-Rex implies in panel five.
Not that it’s all gender stereotyping to begin with, but…
arbyrb over 4 years ago
He’s comparing German/Spanish, it threw me for a second too, had to read it twice.
AndrewSihler over 4 years ago
Yeah, that was an interesting experiment, but the published précis of it mentioned only the one word, “bridge”. It takes more than one tree to make a row. On the other hand, “thinkers” have been trying to show that there is a valid correlation between grammatical concord classes in European languages and semantics of inanimate objects, but with little agreement on the value of the claims. A multilingual friend of mine says that gendered nouns “poeticize” nature. Does the English habit of referring to ships (and whales) as “she” poeticize them?