Day: April 13, 2018

cat-dragonne:

purplecatnap:

hyrude:

my french prof: if you’re talking about a girl cat, you still have to use the masculine. “une chatte” is something… related to cats, but it’s inappropriate and you don’t have any reason to be using it in the context of this class. don’t use it anymore please

everyone for the next 10 minutes: pussy? oh, pussy? pussy? is it pussy? pussy? pussy? pussy? pussy? pussy?

Un chat, une chatte. Masculine, feminine. That professor doesnt know what they’re talking about -_-

Oh, no. That teacher knows exactly what they are talking about.

“une chatte” has pretty much the exact same meaning as “a pussy”.

Exemple: I, a female person, have two female cats.

Should anyone ask me if I have pets, the grammatically correct way to answer would be. “Oui, j’ai deux chattes.” (”Yes, I have two female cats(/pussies)”).

Do you know what I’m opening myself up for when saying that? Because I do. “Oh, mais t’es une fille? Donc t’as trois chattes!” (”Oh, but you’re a girl, so you have three pussies!”)

Such fine humour, right?

So, even as a native French speaker, if I talk about them, I’ll always prefer saying “J’ai deux chat, elles sont sœurs.” (I have two cats, she/they are sisters) Because you just don’t use a word which primary meaning has been supplanted into a sexually connoted one in everyday conversation.

tl/dr: Just because a word has a normal grammatical sense doesn’t mean it hasn’t been corrupted into something else over time, and no female person will ever use any version of “pussy” to talk about their cat, because the same gallows joke gets tiring after the fiftieth time.