[valiumcheapll]

NO it's THAR she blows.

[buIf6yoW]

With the very obvous example that they used to sail aboard 'she'-ps.

[icedrakona]

Does Russian have gender nouns?

Yes it does, but the gender of inanimate objects is usually determined by the declension pattern. This means a yacht is feminine (yakhta), but a ship (korabl) is masculine.

[Matajic]

I wonder what ethos causes a masculine view of one's nation.

Having no word for 'fluffy'.

[TineSeign]

It's funny... The Nazis arising in Germany should have surprised no one. That's the one country you would expect such a movement to develop in. Bunch of militant perfectionists with a tough-sounding language and a masculine identity. Oh and the whole capitalizing all nouns thing and the making of superwords by combining 4 different words together fits in there somehow, but I'm not sure how.

[spravka.ua]

It gives them a sense of superiority because no one else can possibly speak their language

Oh like....

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübert ragungsgesetz

EDIT:
There isn't supposed to be a space there. I guess the forum automatically figured the word was too long

[MeeveStesia]

The fluffy thing, btw, in case anyone didn't know, is from Blackadder IV

[Japakefrope]

Every student of English learns sooner or later that ships should be referred to as "she", even if her name is Dwight Eisenhower. Every language has some funny quirks, of course.
But when reading Moby Dick I encountered another case of using the feminine gender for no reason. Yes, I'm talking about "There she blows!". The whalers have no difficulty in telling male or female whales apart, and it's explicitly stated that Moby Dick is male (he would be called Moby ***** otherwise), but they still shout "There she blows!" when they notice a spout.
Does anyone know the origins of this pharse? Why not "There it blows!"?

Any hole's a goal.

[24MurinivaMak]

Onodera, I think you may find this interesting :

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/ma...ge-t.html?_r=3

The part about Guugu Yimithirr is rather special, and the Matses speakers problem with wifes are a bit funny.

I probably shouldn't have put in the last paragraph That article is actually worth reading.

[mr.calisto]

Well considering that Gaia is Greek, I don't think the English-speaking world is unique in having that term for that idea. I'm sure the Germans refer to the concept as Gaia, as well.

[KlaraNovikoffa]

"Friday" BTW comes from the earth goddess Freya/Frigg/whatever (in case you didn't know...)

Yes and Sunday is Sun day, Monday is Moon day, Tuesday is Tiw's day, Wednesday is Woden's day, Thursday is Thor's day, and Saturday is Saturn's day.