by Excend » Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:41 pm
It isn't very complicated to figure out, and its purpose is to give more elegance to the language.
Doesn't it sound better to describe females with a softer word and males with a stronger one?
The English language demonstrates this in its cultural conventions in some way too, for instance handsome versus pretty (although they do cross over, it is more common to call males handsome and females pretty or beautiful). But in french, rather than using different words, the same words can be used differently.
Then going with that, some nouns sound softer and some harsher.
It isn't very complicated to figure out, and its purpose is to give more elegance to the language.
Doesn't it sound better to describe females with a softer word and males with a stronger one?
The English language demonstrates this in its cultural conventions in some way too, for instance handsome versus pretty (although they do cross over, it is more common to call males handsome and females pretty or beautiful). But in french, rather than using different words, the same words can be used differently.
Then going with that, some nouns sound softer and some harsher.