Names have sex in foreign parts

[sivaroobini]

[20:32] Me: Out of curiosity. Sex... ... der Sex. Male.
[20:32] glacialphoenix /Myst: Huh?
[20:32] Me: Nouns have genders in German
[20:33] Me: Der shows it's male
[20:33] Myst: Ah.
[20:33] Me: Sex in German is male
[20:33] Myst: ...well, that was to be expected? XD
[20:33] Me: XD
[20:33] Myst: ...now I keep thinking of Nanny Ogg
[20:33] Myst: "Names have sex in foreign parts."
[20:33] Me: LMAO
[20:33] Me: Thank you, now I will never complain about the genders again.



^ Gytha 'Nanny' Ogg.

Comments

[silverfox]

The hedgehog, by the way, is male: der Igel.

[sivaroobini]

I will not ask for a translation of the Hedgehog Song. I will not ask for a translation of the Hedgehog Song. I will not ask for a translation of the Hedgehog Song.

So your icon's a grün Igel? :D

[silverfox]

Greenie ist ein grüner Igel.
grüner, because Igel is male. If it were a mouse (female) it'd be
eine grüne Maus (see what the gender is doing to both the article and the adjective? And that's just the start of German grammar ...)
If it were a house (neutral gender - Yep, German has three genders) it'd be
ein grünes Haus

If there's a proper one word translation of buggered, I don't know it, so I could only tell you 'one cannot do sodomy with the hedgehog' which somehow feels like ruining the song. (I wonder whether Ricky could do it better, but she'd want to know what made me ask ...)

[sivaroobini]

Oh good Lord. XD I am taking note of all this though, thanks! :D

Nah, it'd be fine and it would still amuse me! :D ... not that I'd ever have a chance to use it, but it would still amuse me. (Haha, maybe I'll ask her myself.)

[silverfox]

I'm sure you'll learn all this in your courses eventually. Right now just take it as a first explanation why I don't think all of German grammar will fit into a single dream.

Okay, just don't try to learn any vocabulary or grammar from this one. I think that's still too advanced for you at this point. The text in the picture would be: "... Doch mit dem Igel kann man niemals Sodomie treiben!" (I don't dare give you any advice on that. Personally I'd be very happy if you two made up, but I have no idea how Ricky would react if you approach her, and I don't think I can influence her either. So you're on your own there.)

[sivaroobini]

XD Yeah.

AWESOME. I am far too happy about being able to say that. :D (... um, we've been having the occasional chat since... some time last year?)

[silverfox]

(*beams* I had no idea! She never mentioned you, so I thought you hadn't spoken since the argument.)

[sivaroobini]

(XD I would think not, given that as much as I wish otherwise I probably didn't make the best exit from LTSH. But yes, happily we do talk sometimes.)