Mr Potato Head Kaput

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by DucatiScud, Feb 26, 2021.

  1. Gender neutral potato ?
     
  2. The BBC News hmm... Certainly not best, or that trustworthy

    Toymaker Hasbro has confirmed its iconic Mr and Mrs Potato Head characters will be keeping their names.

    In a tweet, the firm said: "Hold that Tot – your main spud, MR. POTATO HEAD isn’t going anywhere! While it was announced today that the POTATO HEAD brand name & logo are dropping the ‘MR.’ I yam proud to confirm that MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD aren’t going anywhere and will remain MR. & MRS. POTATO HEAD."
     
  3. I don’t get it. How can a potato be a MR? Isn’t the word « potato » feminine in English? (French: une patate; Spanish and Italian: una patata)? :D

    Seriously, where did that gender neutral nonsense originated from? Not happening where langages give a gender to every thing, every object. Culturally impossible.

    Gender is essential. Gender is LIFE. It is equally important to straight and gay people. Go Gender!!
     
    #4 Guillaume69, Feb 27, 2021
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  4. Losing his spuds??
     
  5. Isn’t potato une pomme de terre in French?
     
  6. thank goodness, read the thread title and thought he'd died.
     
  7. Who, AC?
    :p:joy:
     
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  8. The PC brigade have gone too now, Mr. Potato Head was the patriarch of the toy box, the last bastion of childhood.
    Be afraid people the end is upon us.
     
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  9. The English language, at least in terms of the noun is much simpler to learn. I don't see why it is necessary to confer gender on inanimate objects. Whenever I find myself conversing in French for example I am always concerned that I might have failed to use the correct gender before the noun. Why should tableau (picture) be masculine and table ( table) be feminine? Maybe this has something to do with English being so widely used.
     
  10. « Tableau » means « painting ».
    « Picture » is « image » or « photo ».

    I don’t know why everything has a gender in romantic langages. I’ll look into it. It does make it a little more difficult to learn (memorize), but it is also a lot of fun. Very poetic and romantic. In Latin cultures, things do not need to be « necessary » to be enjoyable. Very different from anglo-saxon cultures.
    Example:
    A turd = un étron. Masculine
    A shit = une merde. Feminine.
    You basically have two options here, depending on the context, your mood, the audience, etc. How fun is that?! :poop:

    It is too. You can say both. Let’s say that « pomme de terre » is a higher level of langage and « patate » is kind of familiar. You can actually call someone « patate » in French, meaning « dumb ». Anyway, both are feminine.
     
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  11. The Mister Men are fucked on two fronts
     
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  12. They teach this Bullshit in our colleges now too.
    I am glad i am not any younger. I dont like where the world is going.
     
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