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[โ€“] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You know what's worse? When the language has a neutral gender, but it's not actually used for most objects, thus effectively just making it more likely to pick the wrong one when you're guessing! And it's full-on clown show when the native speakers don't even agree on the gender.

[โ€“] teegus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Washing machine could be both male and female in my language. And yes we have neutral.

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