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It could be a whole world or universe in there and we are making assumptions because he happened to be in a jungle with no transportation.

Yes they do match up where if you are talking about a female animal or person it’s a feminine word etc. For inanimate objects I’ve been told they aren’t necessarily giving or thinking of them as having a gender though, not like it would be in English.

There seems to be no standard way to address someone nonbinary, it’s even worse than in English. Best I know is to ask. Until then most simply skip the pronoun and use their name instead, or Sie. Since Sie is respectful and is already used for people of any gender when used formally.

The nonbinary category itself is often called “divers”. Nouns that reference gender can be combined by adding an asterisk in the middle. “Lehrer*in”. As a warning though some conservative and older people can get upset about the asterisk.

Do you know what level German you are at? My older relatives spoke German but passed away when I was young. I always regretted not learning it and being monolingual. So in my 30’s I decided I was just going to learn it even if it took years or I never fully got genders right. Now it’s been 15 months learning daily and am at the B1 level. So not an expert just intermediate with more to learn.

My understanding was that it’s not seen as a male or female like it would be in English. Like der Tisch, they aren’t thinking of the table being manly, it’s just the way it’s said. Also neuter is seen more like a child gender than nonbinary. I have heard nonbinary people find neuter as being offensive because it’s infantilizing them. At least that’s how it was explained to me.

Would love to know more if anyone has any experience with that. I could be wrong as I am still learning and don’t know about gender theory in German. Are there gender politics for objects in German?

Yeah as an English speaker using neuter seems very natural. Modern English loan words such as from IT are often neuter for that reason.

However in general, words are statistically most likely to be masculine and least likely to be neuter. So if the word ending isn’t obviously feminine and it’s not a category such as IT that has a common gender you may be better off guessing masculine.

Yes I do feel like this. Sure there are things that I haven’t done, many involving money or skills that I don’t have. Each moment is unique.

But life feels like playing a video game that is procedurally generated. It’s superficial variations of the same component things and sensations that I have felt before.

This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.

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How do you feel about 2025 so far?

Sure but everything would be blocky and you would be stuck with villagers saying hmm all the time. Unless you decide to live alone with the lights always on so a creeper, enderman or zombie doesn’t get you.

This is interesting to see as someone who hasn’t been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.

As someone who used to raise chickens, I know that the eggs can be covered in poop. Does this leave poop on the eggs in the store if they are unwashed?

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We live in an Idiocracy so whoever has the highest IQ would be nice provided they had the moral base to use that for good. They could come up with ideas like not watering our plants with Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator or tariffs on closest allies.

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You just have a strong association of the smell with seeing it. Your brain is constantly hallucinating your reality to match what it’s expectations are.

This is an important topic for game preservation. Makes me wonder if there is a life expectancy for the parts in a PS2?

The problem with those is finding people to play with.

There is a constant gender war going on for everyone. Even the manliest man. A man has sex with a woman, becomes a father and steps up, gay. Always washes his hands and doesn’t have affairs gay. Drives a Prius, he is some kind of sissy. Eats one vegetable or God have mercy on them if they suck on a popsicle…

Women, no makeup? Butch. Too fat. Can’t excel in your career. Or be too tall. Definitely don’t lift too many weights. Why aren’t you pregnant and at home. Girls shouldn’t be in STEM. Didn’t nurse your own child and used formula? Terrible mother

Gay people? You can’t have sex like that or marry that person. Trans? Wow you can’t live your life like that. Let’s force what name, gender, pronouns, bathrooms, healthcare etc that you can have. Imagine what it’s like to have the control over you to be taken to that extreme by the actual government.

It’s all a spectrum that everyone is on with trans getting the worst of it because they are on the far end.