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RE: 🔎 "Zoom in" - a closer look at "Nachtfalterin" (The Moth)
That such a beautiful piece! Yes it's a really interesting thing about the gender of words.. also because a moth is often used as feminine in symbology - as is spider often a symbol of strong feminine energy, but Spider is male in Italian (ragno), so it doesn't always makes sense (don't remember spider in German right now..!). In Danish (my first language) there are two "genders" of words (en or et), but they are neither male nor female.. just en or et, no explanation or logic in that ;D
I really appreciate the high resolution pictures by the way!
Sounds like the Scandinavians are ahead with the language, as they are in many things ;-)
Yes, the gender thing becomes really strange, once you compare different languages. I had the biggest problems, when I learned French in school, as there the male and female are often very different from German... here Spider is female by the way. But with its ending in "er" the English word "feels" male to a German... oh god, one could play this through indefinitely I guess! 😜