It's moronic translation, there's no word in Russian that would literally mean 'motherland', there is 'oтeчecтвo' — 'fatherland' and 'poдинa' — 'place you was born in'.
Fatherland refers to the land your father and his ancestors are from. We have the same in Norway, where it's called "Fedreland", which is plural, referring to your father and your forefathers.
The gender is not applied to the country itself, at least not in this particular case.
because countries, cars, really anything mechanical is a chick. If you don't use She or Her when you talk about your car or a boat or something you're weird.
Nah, referring to a machine as "her" is asking it to take on a female temperament. Last thing you want is a car to give you the vehicular equivalent of "It's fine" when it's clearly not fine. Boats are different though because I wanna frick all of then, yes including inflatable rafts and paper boats
Hope the guy who wanted the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch thread from the New Zealand Plantation is still snooping around. First search result bud, don't know what to tell you.
Germans only have a fatherland because France was first to have a female personification. They tried the entire Germania meme but it didn’t stick so they went with the contrarian option. Nazis then made it only worse because they hated women so much they amped up the fatherland propaganda even more.
Germans basically stopped using the term fatherland quite some time ago. Even their right-wingers use the term homeland these days which is unsurprisingly female.
most of the National Personifications of nations are female, the list in this article is very extensive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personification
Men dedicate themselves to women to produce family and life. Men who dedicate to something else instead are seen as marrying it. So ships country's whatever else he spends his life caring for is female.
>Why do people always say
they only say that about countries ruled by a queen - e.g. england until a few days ago which is probably where you heard it - because the navy literally belongs to the monarch.
If it requires a bunch of maintenance and fuss, or it's fickle, it's a 'Her'. That's why weather, machinery, land, nations, and bad days are all referred to as female. Ask any mechanic. >Captcha OPXDD
Many languages have gender for almost all words. This includes shit that obviously doesn't have genders like lamps, towels, countries, etc.
When people translate other languages they sometimes keep phrases like "Germany and her coal reserves," instead of its.
It also has a nice ring to it. You generally always see it as the female in English translations these days though, but you sometimes see "his" in older stuff.
It's actually really mundane. The words we use in English are derived from older languages and in those languages words had genders. Calling a boat "she" is kinda weird to us in English but some languages that's how EVERYTHING is done, boats are girls and tables are boys and houses are boys and nails are girls.
So it's just a holdover from that. Nothing special about it, no great secret or wisdom.
If you love something, you imagine it as a female. Only fruits like germoids and russoids have Fatherlands.
>Russians
>Fatherland
Bruh
Oтeчecтвo means literally fatherland
isn't there some russian military award "for service to the motherland" that also refers to russia as the "fatherland" in the name?
It's moronic translation, there's no word in Russian that would literally mean 'motherland', there is 'oтeчecтвo' — 'fatherland' and 'poдинa' — 'place you was born in'.
>R*ssia
>Fatherland
Russia is a trans country. They flip flop between having a fatherland and motherland all the time.
what being orphaned by communists does to a mfer
To be fair, that's impessively FRICKING MASSIVE. How the hell did they erect it?
The Soviets did.
From my limited experience with large statues, it's either polished concrete or an actual structure that you can go in, also built with concrete
it's motherland for where you are born, fatherland for where your family is from, and homeland for where you live.
The represention of Germany is still Germania
Fatherland refers to the land your father and his ancestors are from. We have the same in Norway, where it's called "Fedreland", which is plural, referring to your father and your forefathers.
The gender is not applied to the country itself, at least not in this particular case.
Doesn't "fatherland" mean land of your fathers rather than land that's a father? "Land" could still be female.
In Polish we say "ojczyzna" (fatherland), but it's a feminine noun.
because countries, cars, really anything mechanical is a chick. If you don't use She or Her when you talk about your car or a boat or something you're weird.
Nah, referring to a machine as "her" is asking it to take on a female temperament. Last thing you want is a car to give you the vehicular equivalent of "It's fine" when it's clearly not fine. Boats are different though because I wanna frick all of then, yes including inflatable rafts and paper boats
Hope the guy who wanted the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch thread from the New Zealand Plantation is still snooping around. First search result bud, don't know what to tell you.
troony jannies get fricked.
Because I love women.
bc everyone gets fricked by their government, and if you call it a her its less gay
also this does make germans even more gay
Germans only have a fatherland because France was first to have a female personification. They tried the entire Germania meme but it didn’t stick so they went with the contrarian option. Nazis then made it only worse because they hated women so much they amped up the fatherland propaganda even more.
Germans basically stopped using the term fatherland quite some time ago. Even their right-wingers use the term homeland these days which is unsurprisingly female.
Female national personas came long before feudal times, so this hardly has anything to do with taxes or military service.
men show greater empathy and willingness to sacrifice for a concept when it is portrayed as a woman. countries were the first waifus
This shit was revolting pedo bait that surprisingly got a lot of traction in pro-russian spaces. Really makes you think...
Where do you think you are?
Go back to r/ncd homosexual
We poles have a fatherland but the world "Polska" is feminine. Such cases
Because.
Mostly Anglophonic countries
/k/ - Linguistics and grammar
>Why do people always say it “Her” navies, “Her” armies, “Her” troops when referring to countries?
british people aren't even citizens
they're subjects
the queen owns them
they're all Black folk
>the queen owns them
well not anymore
most of the National Personifications of nations are female, the list in this article is very extensive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_personification
because the (male) ruler of a country is the father, and the land itself is the mother. We, the people, are the children.
Gosh I don't know.
Men dedicate themselves to women to produce family and life. Men who dedicate to something else instead are seen as marrying it. So ships country's whatever else he spends his life caring for is female.
My country is a cute girl, obviously.
The Bismarck was referred to as male
Here pictured Italy and Germany in the 1800s. Clearly countries are tiptop waifus.
>Why do people always say
they only say that about countries ruled by a queen - e.g. england until a few days ago which is probably where you heard it - because the navy literally belongs to the monarch.
because your country spends your whole life gaslighting and manipulating you while draining your bank account like a woman would
If it requires a bunch of maintenance and fuss, or it's fickle, it's a 'Her'. That's why weather, machinery, land, nations, and bad days are all referred to as female. Ask any mechanic.
>Captcha OPXDD
Because it's hot. You've never been sexually attracted to certain militaries before?
No, but there are several military vehicles I want to have sex with
because countries are pure fricking evil, but we need them anyway
Because they're all vehicles. And I'm not getting inside a man.
Mothers are the ones who bare children, therefore it makes more sense to refer to the land that bore you as a female.
Many languages have gender for almost all words. This includes shit that obviously doesn't have genders like lamps, towels, countries, etc.
When people translate other languages they sometimes keep phrases like "Germany and her coal reserves," instead of its.
It also has a nice ring to it. You generally always see it as the female in English translations these days though, but you sometimes see "his" in older stuff.
It's actually really mundane. The words we use in English are derived from older languages and in those languages words had genders. Calling a boat "she" is kinda weird to us in English but some languages that's how EVERYTHING is done, boats are girls and tables are boys and houses are boys and nails are girls.
So it's just a holdover from that. Nothing special about it, no great secret or wisdom.
Grammatical gender in English only disappeared around the 13th century in the first place.