PRONOUNSIn Israel, a Biblical Tongue Meets Gender Politics

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[–]fschmidt 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One has to know a semitic language to know how hilarious this is. In Hebrew, every part of speech is gendered.

[–]opinioncloset 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Indeed, Semitic languages go one step further than Indo-European languages (e.g. Romance, Slavic, Germanic, etc.) While those languages might have gender on nouns and third-person pronouns, Semitic languages have gender even on second-person pronouns and their equivalent verb conjugations. It's literally impossible to talk to someone without mentioning their gender.

[–]GrilledTofuIdentifying as a block of tofu[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In other words they had to literally reinvent the language from scratch in order to kowtow to woke