Girls, do you prefer blonde or brunette?

[MerakSahibi]

Brunette

Blonde

It doesn't matter

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I don't know what's going on with English, a brunette can be a guy? What linguistic sorcery is this?

[MerakSahibi]

Everyone are not from the USA. It's not like loving anime

[NathanDavis]

that's because... we don't talk about Bruno

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Loving anime, Bruno... It's even more mysterious now

[NathanDavis]

how do you call a dark haired man... besides, dark haired man

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

a brown-haired man sounds more intuitive to me, in the context

[NathanDavis]

and... how do you say, April's Fools?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

In french? Literally the first April

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

But for reference, I'm reacting to brunette because this term, to me, means a short or young girl with brown hair.

Whereas the question is about a guy

[NathanDavis]

whether is food, ideals or language... first we have to ruin it, to make it American...

[NathanDavis]

and just so you guys stopped coming back trying to invade...

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Lolol

[MrChinaski]

Well, if you can have 'le week-end' then we can have 'brunette'. If only there were a way to combine the two... 🤔

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

hehe yeah we seem to want the weekend more than the end of the week but also we didn't twist it, unlike the term brunette that is being used for a person whereas we made it for girls

[MrChinaski]

But we don't have gendered nouns in English. So we chose to massacre the French instead of the English... like Agincourt, but for linguists.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

gendered, not gendered, I wonder what explains this difference now...

[NathanDavis]

the are gendered nouns in English, of course... and very obvious ones as well

man, woman... brother, sister... nephew, niece... cow, bull... chicken/rooster...

prince/princess... buck, doe... actor, actress... waiter, waitress

Nickelback, Metallica...

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis I hear you sister!

But those are names of females and males. Not 'la voiture' vs 'le bus'.

[NathanDavis]

@MrChinaski so you meant to say grammatical gender...

and not gendered nouns... because names are in fact, nouns... lol

and definitely use them gendered, not as neutrals

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis Yes.

[NathanDavis]

@MrChinaski well... we still have ships, boats, cars, ideals, nations and more...

as in... "she was a feisty one, my Jolene... oh Jolene, don't you ever get away from me... "

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis I identify as a chocolate bar. My pronouns are 'her/she'.

[NathanDavis]

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

But nothing of that explains why some people chose to go the neutral (or no) gender route while others did... Let's focus

[NathanDavis]

English has Brunet and Brunette... lmfao

it's just that most people are not familiar with both terms as one, is used way more than the other, that's all

English doesn't make sense at all... and Americans make even less sense as it is... so, we should not expect that others, trying to learn English will be able to properly master the impossible... which is this massively popular but also deeply flawed language madness

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

No I mean, Latin based languages attributed gender, German did the same thing and yet English didn't do that

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I'm curious about why

[MrChinaski]

Well, dutch, danish, swedish went part of the way there.

I guess we Brits are a tad lazier again.

[NathanDavis]

I would say that the reason is laziness... but, the actual reason was simplification

old... very Old English had genders and other endings as well, just like German did... but Old English and Old Norse started to co-exist and got very close at that, and in the mixing and mingling of these too... they went the simple route and stopped used gendered endings over time

and by the point these were pretty much gone, English started to take from the Norman... but kept ignoring the "genderization" that already abandoned before...

why struggle? keep it simple instead... lmao

[NathanDavis]

in similar fashion... the Portuguese, French, Italian and Spaniard... mixed with one another, but kept the more of the roots in Latin, which is why and how all kept gender as a thing

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Ahhhh thanks I assumed English never used genders but it was wrong, it ceased using them instead.

It's odd then, I didn't realize languages could simplify, I assumed they always got more complex during development

[NathanDavis]

not if you have Vikings to mingle with... and other "Barbarian" hordes from the Germanic lands to deal with...

you're probably better off keeping things as most simple as possible... lmao

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Lol, not sure this reason is valid at all, but there's some logic

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis Except German is gendered and English is notionally Germanic.

[NathanDavis]

@MrChinaski that's not what exception is...

German was origin... English is adaptation and evolution

[NathanDavis]

matter of fact... German itself is not German anymore, the notions of what it was, some persists... but nowadays you have a few dialects of it as well

which is why there's an "standard German" and there's a lot of dialects all over the place

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis German isn't German? How can I possibly disagree?

[NathanDavis]

@MrChinaski it's not...

just like "right" is not always right... right?

because "right" can also be "right" as well as "right" all at the same time, but in different ways

and you know I am right about that, so there's no point to disagree..

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not see how that simple it was? to drive a simple point across...

not complex at all... lmfao

ain't English a wonderful thing...

[MrChinaski]

@NathanDavis Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[NathanDavis]

yeah... or the Ghoti ghoti ghoti ghoti ghoti...

which means... Ghoti that other ghoti ghoti themselves ghoti, or... Ghoti that are ghoti'd by other ghoti also ghoti for ghoti

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not it's not only valid and logical, but natural as well...

whether or not a language becomes more complex or more simple, greatly depends on its usage, so... if you have more isolated groups of people that only speak to themselves or rarely interact with other larger groups, their languages and needs for communication remain "simple" but still complex in nature because familiarity does not bring a need to change things... so a language simply remains complex

in contrast... when you have larger, dynamic groups, which are also in contact with other different groups and keep mingling and engaging with languages of their own... simplification is needed, change is needed, and such change is towards adaptability and similarities as well, something that both groups have it more simple and easy to get familiar with

and maybe... the old English just had the same approach for both food and language... the less effort the better... lmao

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

@NathanDavis
Hmmmm okay, I nickelback you, in some metallica way

[NathanDavis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmoFqvY5gw

[Anonymous]

I love eing 5 foot 11 tall, dark haired and - 👀 I could be handsome
I could 😂🙂

[Opinion Owner]

*being - darn i ruined my answer lol 😭😭😭

[Opinion Owner]

Lol 😆

[Cleatchaser1]

I prefer a guy who looks attractive and he either or isn't, regardless of hair color.

[queenofcardio]

Dark hair can sometimes look more attractive.

[NicholasofAustralia]

Or when blondes naturally do with time ; even the ladies 🤪

[Nikki1989]

I don't care. A decent hairstyle helps, however.

[karlaatsd]

It does not matter at all but I don't know red hair guys not real attracted to

[Zionne]

Brunette

[NicholasofAustralia]

Thanks 🤭 👀