Today's linguistic factoid

[Howard Alan Treesong]

In French, the word "nothing" takes the gender of the thing that's not there.

[Eric P]

no wonder they gave us existentialism

[warcock]

In French, the word "nothing" takes the gender of the thing that's not there.

Yes but the word's structure is indentical under any circumstances as opposed to the habitual suffix changing due to a particular gender.

Im orally trying to attach it to noun and i cant "il a rien dans cette boite". Stop phuking with my head   

[Tauntaun]

In French, the word "nothing" takes the gender of the thing that's not there.

Yes but the word's structure is indentical under any circumstances as opposed to the habitual suffix changing due to a particular gender.

Im orally trying to attach it to noun and i cant "il a rien dans cette boite". Stop phuking with my head   

taste that cock

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I'm talking aucun vs. aucune

[warcock]

I'm talking aucun vs. aucune

Its more accurate to translate this as "without" imo. Dunno maybe "none" actually  

[Mandark]

I'd translate aucun(e) as "none of" or "not a single".

Then again, "sans aucun(e)" is pretty common and that throws a wrench into all the possible translations in this thread.

[Ichirou]

Romance languages.

Germanic languages.

[warcock]

Romance languages.

Germanic languages.

What he said.

[Tauntaun]

DU, DU HAST!

[brawndolicious]

german sounds hella cooler.

ichi, which is better?  mexican or spanish?

[Ichirou]

german sounds hella cooler.

ichi, which is better?  mexican or spanish?

Do you prefer paellas or tacos?

[Ichirou]

So the spanish would be...ningun/ninguna?

The translation would be something like "nobody," then?

Ningun hombre puede parar al Sr. Domino.
No man can stop Mr. Domino.

OR

Ninguno puede parar al Sr. Domino.
No one can stop Mr. Domino.

OR

Ninguna mujer puede parar al Sr. Domino.
No woman can stop Mr. Domino.

OR

Ninguna puede parar al Sr. Domino.
No one can stop Mr. Domino.

[Raban]

If anybody knows Japanese, I wanted to get something straight in my head, just for my own personal knowledge: In Japan, kanji and any other kind of lettering stands for sounds rather than letters, right? So it's almost like instead of letters, their alphabet is made of syllables. Did I get that much right? I don't think I'm ever gonna take the time to learn Japanese, but I just wanted to know because to me, that makes Japanese seem like a pretty easy language to get behind, since my jack-off teacher was like "ZOMG JAPANESE SO HARD I'LL STICK WITH ENGLISH LOLOLOL"

[Howard Alan Treesong]

kanji don't really "stand for" sounds, though they have (several) associated readings, or sounds that they represent depending on context

hiragana and katakana are known as syllabaries, not alphabets. characters are known as phonemes, not letters. so, yes. you can't make a "k" sound in Japanese; you can only say ka/ki/ku/ke/ko. "n" is the only standalone consonant, and it can only appear after a vowel (kan is okay, but you have to say na as a syllable, you can't concatenate n+a)

I know what "aucun" means but unfortunately the context that it's being used in here doesn't have a subject--it's just aucun/aucune by itself, without homme/femme or any other subject stated explicitly. so it's having to take an implied gender. and I'm having to think of a one word aucun translation, which, as you rightly pointed out, doesn't make much sense.

thanks, tho!