Cambionic to 4tran4 · 1 month agoIf your native language is gendered, do you unconsciously perceive English as gendered?message-squaremessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareIf your native language is gendered, do you unconsciously perceive English as gendered?Cambionic to 4tran4 · 1 month agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-text
For some reason my brain perceives English as masculine gendered, and I sometimes randomly think I misgendered someone.
minus-squareNewGirlMellinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoRussian is highly gendered but I never really thought about gendering English. That said, I came here when I was six so English is honestly more my native language than Russian at this point.
minus-squareCambionicOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoRussian is my native and I spoke it exclusively for 19 years, so I think it got ingrained in my head to gender past verbs.
minus-squareNewGirlMellinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoThat makes sense. My mom definitely struggles a ton with gendering (she is absolutely supportive so I knows it’s not malicious).
Russian is highly gendered but I never really thought about gendering English. That said, I came here when I was six so English is honestly more my native language than Russian at this point.
Russian is my native and I spoke it exclusively for 19 years, so I think it got ingrained in my head to gender past verbs.
That makes sense. My mom definitely struggles a ton with gendering (she is absolutely supportive so I knows it’s not malicious).