Where are you guys? (17 Viewers)
- Thread starter Martin
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@gray Once you get good at Italian you can cut your teeth on reverse engineering these 
http://imgur.com/4qm3ex8
http://imgur.com/4qm3ex8
I've been doing a lot of research about languages in general, and it's helped me to understand the kinds of mistakes that tend to be made by speakers of particular languages such as leaving out definite articles, habitually assigning genders to objects.
I've noticed that Italians tend to use the word 'crash' instead of 'break' when translating into English e.g. "Crash glass in case of emergency"
I could imagine four reasons:
1.) Juventus means youth, or in Italian gioventú, which is female.
2.) Perhaps it comes from "la squadra", but then again teams like Milan would be feminine as well.
3.) La Vecchia Signora
4.) No particular reason, it!s jzst completely random.
Don't know if any of them is correct though.
1.) Juventus means youth, or in Italian gioventú, which is female.
2.) Perhaps it comes from "la squadra", but then again teams like Milan would be feminine as well.
3.) La Vecchia Signora
4.) No particular reason, it!s jzst completely random.
Don't know if any of them is correct though.
It's probably mostly random like it is in these languages with most gendercised nouns. Random like Elvin.
I like the comments about randomness, but it is called the Old Lady. I think a lot of non-Latin-language speakers get too easily hung up on a literal definition of gender when it comes to the gender of nouns in languages. That said, it's not uncommon for entities to take on a female persona. There are similar cases even in the English language. For example, the New York Times is also known as the Grey Lady.
