Gar, just be thankful it isn't French. Because, am I remembering "le vagine" correctly? Vagina in French is in the masculine?
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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deborah grabien - Apr 26, 2006 8:18:24 am PDT #6498 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Amy - Apr 26, 2006 8:19:43 am PDT #6499 of 10001
Because books.
Vagina in French is in the masculine?
Oh, now, if that's true, it's just wrong.
SailAweigh - Apr 26, 2006 8:33:37 am PDT #6500 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Vagina in French is in the masculine?
Boggles.
Boggles some more.
Does that mean all the vaginas belong to men? As in, the male owns the female, therefore, her vagina belonga him? So glad my ancestors got smart and left the country.
deborah grabien - Apr 26, 2006 8:35:45 am PDT #6501 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
"vagin" = noun masculine.
Language is very very strange, sometimes.
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2006 8:41:18 am PDT #6502 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Theories on the gender of vagin.
It's interesting--it looks kinda like the gender of the word was resolved by shape (-in) rather than meaning. Which is something I think French does--chemin is masculine, whereas most of the other words for roads (rue, route, allée, chaussée, etc) are feminine.
And vagine was already taken.
Aims - Apr 26, 2006 8:47:26 am PDT #6503 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
This is why I now say, "Va-jay-jay".
(Thanks Dr Bailey)
Volans - Apr 26, 2006 8:52:52 am PDT #6504 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Witch
I return to the cottage in the gloaming. As I pass, I take a flower from my basket and lay it on Oma's grave. Inside, I light the candle and take out the rest of the contents: several plump tree ears, a mound of fiddleheads, early berries. Last autumn's nuts, from a squirrel's forgotten cache. A handful of slender onions. A string of trout.
Before she died, Oma taught me how to find all these things. She taught me that when you live in the forest, you can't fear it.
Last of all, I take the wolf's tooth from my basket and set it in the middle, next to the candle.
deborah grabien - Apr 26, 2006 8:53:53 am PDT #6505 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
ita, yep. And now it has me wondering - in a sort of vaguely distracted way - whether other gender-specific languages do the same thing. German for umbrella, for window....
erikaj - Apr 26, 2006 8:57:45 am PDT #6506 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It wouldn't surprise me, though Ensler forgive me I don't know the Spanish for "vagina".
deborah grabien - Apr 26, 2006 9:03:39 am PDT #6507 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Raq, whoa. Powerful.