Well, here, on FR, we speak mostly English.
What language are you referring to?
Sorry, that was a bad, old, language joke.
“People have sex,words have genders.”
I think french has 4 genders and perhaps spanish too. Latin (from the dinosaur days) had 3 ?
Someone will correct me but i think those are singular and plural gendered words.
Again, sorry, just a bad old joke and i only know enough to get slapped and some naughty words.
TM
I think he was referring to languages that put a “la” or “le” (french) or other gender specific identifiers before words. It has been decades since I was in French Language classes and I don’ recall gender neutral words or a neutral prefix-like attachment word akin to La or Le.
Le crayon (pronounced cray-ohn) is “the pencil”. Le is masculine.
while
La famille is “the family”. La is feminine.
I am not familiar enough with Spanish and German to remark on their gendering of words. Probably some languages have feminine, masculine, and neutral qualities attached to their words.
That would make 2 sexes and 3 genders for some languages.