@vaporeon_ oh shit that’s a cute sounding way to refur to cats
@aescling Language fact: Actually, the word "cat" is gendered in Russian 
"кошка" is female cat, "кот" is male cat
But cats are female by default, i.e. if you don't know the gender of a cat, you would call it "кошка"
This also happens in German ("Katze" and "Kater")... I wonder whether other languages have this, too... @onfy , can you tell me whether this also happens in French?
@vaporeon_ @onfy anglo-saxon (aka “old english”) had gendered terms catt and catte, male and female, respectively
@aescling Cool! How did you learn Anglo-Saxon? Do you have a degree in linguistics?
@vaporeon_ i only bits and bobs mostly because of etymology. i did study linguistics, actually, but i was boring and almost entirely studied things in modern english. (my other language of interest is classical latin, which is.... niche..... fur actual linguistics work)
@vaporeon_ incidentally i did briefly try to read a textbook on anglo-saxon in, like, high school
