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I was thinking about pokemon types when I wrote this. In those games type effectiveness could range from completely ineffective to 4 times the usual effect in most circumstances. Does anything like this happen in linguistics. Idk if grammatical gender is the best fit, it just amused me to think of flavoring words with pokemon types.
Idk if I picked the right tag for this post. If someone can let me know what field of study grammatical gender, or this phenomenon falls into, that would be nice. Thanks.
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As someone almost completely unfamiliar with Pokémon, I would really appreciate if you could explain what you mean bc it sounds amusing.
In pokemon, the species of pokemon are given types, and these types are given relationships.
Fire is weak to water and resists grass. Water is weak to grass and resists fire. Grass is weak to fire and resists water.
A pokemon can have either one or two types. A pokemon with one type can have a single Resistance or weaknesses, but ones with two types can have double Resistances, or double weaknesses.
Some types don't effect each other, but that isn't effected in the same way. If a pokemon isn't effected by electric attacks, they will remain unaffected if they gain another type.
I mean, isn't classical poetry entirely based on how words fit the best together?
In average European languages, a single male in the group will make the whole group male, so I guess male is strong against female in patriarchy.