• Cornucopiaofplenty@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Well the actor/ess thing refers to the actual genders of the people involved, not some randomly assigned gender to an inanimate object. The ship thing fair enough, but we don’t have different articles just for ships.

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      9 months ago

      Sure there are a few more. Policeman, mailman, meter maid, milkman, butler, mistress… Nothing compared to the horrorshow that is German.