Armand K.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @Kat_Says_Stuff @emerrin_lol The FACT that "monarch" is used for female rulers DOES prove you wrong – regardless of how the word was coined. And a stupid sentence like "Matriarch is the anti-gendered version of monarch" continues to be nonsense.

HTH, you fucking moron!

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @Kat_Says_Stuff @emerrin_lol > Monarch is derived from the Greek words meaning "Sole Ruler."

Yes. How does that make the modern word monarch to "specifically mean male"?! Particularly when it's clearly used to refer to FEMALES all the time, as in every fucking queen in history?

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@psykwrogoth @freekyfreezer @ResEvilDude Oh, for fuck's sake! If you can't tell the difference between a girl and the fucking word "girl", that's your problem. You should have paid attention in elementary school!

Now thanks for fucking off my timeline. Let me help with that...

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @Kat_Says_Stuff @emerrin_lol Oh, and matriarch is the feminine counterpart to patriarch. Nothing anti-gendered about it (whatever the fuck that's even supposed to mean).

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @Kat_Says_Stuff @emerrin_lol > Monarch specifically means male

By that "logic", Queen Elizabeth II – the longest-reigning British monarch (!!) – was actually King Elijah in drag.

> Matriarch is the anti-gendered version of monarch.

Dafuq is that even supposed to mean?

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@TEMPORAL_FIRE @Lonkblonk_ @emerrin_lol Etymological fallacy.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@psykwrogoth @freekyfreezer @ResEvilDude Yes, and it's neuter as well – and you can see it immediately from the "das" article used with the word. Not sure what confuses you.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@AmazingJeremyB @dr_jon_l It would've been even sadder if they didn't enforce measures to protect those loved ones from contracting a DEADLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE, so spare me the histrionics.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@SashSoulsmith @avonalmond @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude You shouldn't assume some basic knowledge requires a degree just because YOU are too stupid to reason your way out of a wet paper bag.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@psykwrogoth @freekyfreezer @ResEvilDude It is the best metric for seeing which noun is what gender, though.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@m08734471 @Kubin222 @ResEvilDude It's just a rule of thumb, not a universal law; it has exceptions. And the same is true for other languages with the same rule of thumb that nouns ending in -a are feminine – like Italian or Romanian.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@Brilliand__ @speech_ka_ @TonnTonn61 @ResEvilDude It started out by having male, female, and neuter; but male and female fused into "common", so you're left with two now.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@AmericaNumber1_ @KianMajor @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude Irrelevant.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@AmericaNumber1_ @avonalmond @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude It actually is not gendered. It doesn't matter what was the gender of the word it originated from. English doesn't have grammatical gender for nouns, and that's the end of the story.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@SashSoulsmith @avonalmond @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude Mind, in English, the proper – as in, grammatically correct – pronoun for things like countries (or cars and ships, for that matter) is "it".

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@SashSoulsmith @avonalmond @Fantasia1910 @ResEvilDude > more like the pronouns you'd use for the nation

Well, that's roughly it... for languages that HAVE a gendered grammar, as opposed to merely some gendered pronouns that they assign more or less arbitrarily to non-biological entities, in defiance of proper grammar.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@ResEvilDude "Germany" is neutral in German ("das" Deutschland), just like "France" is feminine in French ("la" France).

And even if that weren't the case, the **grammatical** gender of nouns doesn't necessarily correspond to the biological gender/sex, if any, of the entity they refer to.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@ResEvilDude "Fatherland" is neuter in German, "das Vaterland".

And, anyway, that's irrelevant. The map doesn't refer to the gender of nicknames for one's country (like fatherland, motherland, homeland and equivalents), but to the grammatical gender of the country's name itself.

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@jimlux @eevblog Yeah, and they also don't define "most", "programming", "language", and "year"!

[Armand K. @krrypton]

@AmazingJeremyB @dr_jon_l I'm sure the whole waiting room stood and clapped!