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What, like "B is a girl and E is a boy?"

That's dumb. I can't say I've never thought it, but it's dumb.

Could they have just meant something like grammatical gender?

No, exactly what Mukora said.

So not the same as Alice and Bob examples, but something else entirely?

Just... what.

I'm confused.

Is your classmate quite all there? O_o

He is.

I need sleep, but I have a paper to write.

I need coffee and sushi.

Why am I speaking like this?

...I am not sure I get this conversation. And Hopey is not around as an excuse this time, so I am afraid you guys are gonna have to explain to me.

Basically, Saint Deltora has a classmate who is arbitrarily assigning genders to numbers and letters.

Like, "A is male, B is female, C is male, D is male"

It's worth noting that those examples come from when I was a kid and actually did think letters and numbers had genders. Emphasis on when I was a kid.

That's just silly.

...What.

I think lots of people did it when I was a kid, but then I grew up in a language where chairs and tables are gendered, and, again, these were kids. It's really weird that an adult/teenager would be doing it and be so insistent about it.

French?

And Italian. And technically Latin but hahahaiknownothingofthat

My mother was French Roma, and my father was from Sicily. I moved between France and Italy pretty frequently when I was a kid. I probably speak English better than I speak either language as a consequence.

edited 5th May '15 4:42:43 AM by Mukora

Welsh has a great deal of gendered grammar but there is a push by some to have a neuter gender to change that. Although because of that I'm so used to using 'They' as a neuter pronoun.

EVERY noun in Latin is gendered, even inanimate objects. Why? Ask the Romans. For some reason though they decided that churches have gender, as do chairs and togas.

edited 5th May '15 4:43:05 AM by RatherRandomRachel

Portuguese too.

"Cadeira" and "Mesa" are both feminine.

A good rule of thumb that works for most cases is if it ends in "-o" then it's masculine while if it ends with "-a" it's feminine.

Hence why this isn't that weird to me.

edited 5th May '15 4:42:29 AM by SaintDeltora

VIDEO RELATED.

Mukodad... are you Mukomum?

Never thought of gendered letters when I was a kid, but I grew up with English, a lot of kids did the whole pink and maybe purple are girl colours every other one is a boy colour, but that's as close as we got (we were quite insulted when our Grade 3 teacher said that there weren't any boy or girl colours just colours).

What kind of gender is ultraviolet?

What will happen to the Hopey tree if the answer is yes? I hope it explodes into confetti.

edited 5th May '15 8:56:51 AM by AqueousBunnies

It's not a color, because to be a "color", it has to be on the visible spectrum. It's a frequency of light wave, but it's not a color of light.

Of course, that logic only has any meaning due to the arbitrary bounds of the human visible spectrum, so if we met aliens or talking animals who could see light from outside our visible spectrum, perhaps they could tell us the gender of ultraviolet light. Or X-rays. Or gamma rays..

What if I'm a tetrachromat and I can see parts of the ultraviolet spectrum?

No, I'm not.

edited 5th May '15 8:58:04 AM by AqueousBunnies

Then It's Up to You to tell us. :o

Did we have that one already?

Wooooow. I'm down with being deliberately offensive to prove a point, but I feel like the "point" might have been buried a little too deeply there.