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minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoWhat’s wrong with just ‘general’?
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoIt could be a gendered noun in Korean, but yeah, I thought they had women in the officer corps already so it shouldn’t seem that strange.
minus-squareLophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoI just looked it up and apparently Korean does not have a gendered grammar. But yeah… it’s probably just a subtle way of pointing out that she is who she is. I wonder if she has the hobby of executing her relatives with anti-aircraft guns, like her dad?
What’s wrong with just ‘general’?
It could be a gendered noun in Korean, but yeah, I thought they had women in the officer corps already so it shouldn’t seem that strange.
I just looked it up and apparently Korean does not have a gendered grammar.
But yeah… it’s probably just a subtle way of pointing out that she is who she is.
I wonder if she has the hobby of executing her relatives with anti-aircraft guns, like her dad?