Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20180616101559/@comment-31763506-20180704141035

19 without Robin, per word of SL.

If we're callously insulting other people's native languages, I've always found grammatical gender to be somewhat bizarre.

There was a satirical linguistics article (written in English) from the "Journal of Irreproducible Results" called "Sexual Behavior in the Human Language". It said that:

(Such languages) are full of sexified tables, chairs, houses, trees and other objects that have no need for sex, have never asked for it, and use it only to frustrate themselves and anyone who is trying to learn the language.

It also speculated on the emotional fulfillment feminine French tables might achieve from traveling to a land where the tables are referred to as masculine; the thoroughness of German in allowing objects to have a neutral gender, but that unmarried women and girls are assigned this neuter gender, and musings on how this paradoxical setup might have led to certain acts of German aggression in the 20th century owing to German young men having to find femininity in furniture and maids.

Arakhne wrote:

At least, words in German are written as they are spoken.

I want to go on record in noting that I have never seen anyone write with their mouths.