Giro d'Italia 2017 **spoilers**

[rich p]

A propos nothing, it's unusual for nouns to have different genders across the Latin language. Maillot is masculine in French, maglia is feminine. I ought to have noticed this years ago but, hey ho....

Are you missing Carlton Kirby?

 

[rich p]

This chase group are fecking about.

 

[dragon72]

A propos nothing, it's unusual for nouns to have different genders across the Latin language. Maillot is masculine in French, maglia is feminine. I ought to have noticed this years ago but, hey ho....

Prepare for a linguistics geekfest:

It's not all that unusual for words with the same Latin root to differ in gender, especially Spanish vs the other Romance languages.
Salt: masculine in French (le sel) & Italian (il sale), feminine in Spanish (la sal)
Milk: masculine in French (le lait) & Italian (il latte), feminine in Spanish (la leche)
Colour: Masculine in Spanish (el color) & Italian (il colore), feminine in French (la couleur)
Map: Masculine in Spanish (el mapa), feminine in Italian (la mappa).
To name but a few.
...and now coming into the picture, with the breakaway at 7 minutes and change, is a Romanesque church, built in the 14th century, dedicated to Saint..."

Carlton Kirby, eat your heart out.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Prepare for a linguistics geekfest:

It's not all that unusual for words with the same Latin root to differ in gender, especially Spanish vs the other Romance languages.
Salt: masculine in French (le sel) & Italian (il sale), feminine in Spanish (la sal)
Milk: masculine in French (le lait) & Italian (il latte), feminine in Spanish (la leche)
Colour: Masculine in Spanish (el color) & Italian (il colore), feminine in French (la couleur)
Map: Masculine in Spanish (el mapa), feminine in Italian (la mappa).
To name but a few.
...and now coming into the picture, with the breakaway at 7 minutes and change, is a Romanesque church, built in the 14th century, dedicated to Saint..."

Carlton Kirby, eat your heart out.

Informative. I'm not a Latin speaker but I'm wondering whether these words were originally neuter and got their gender reassigned..... French usually adopts masculine (color being an exception.)

 

[brommers]

If it stays as it is Polanc would move 3rd overall

 

[rich p]

It's coming down now. Less than 8 with 16 km to go

 

[dragon72]

French usually adopts masculine (color being an exception.)

These French words - la dent, la mer, la douleur, la banque, la tomate, la limite, la planète, plus many more, have masculine equivalents in Spanish.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

These French words - la dent, la mer, la douleur, la banque, la tomate, la limite, la planète, plus many more, have masculine equivalents in Spanish.

Conti's looking frisky today.

I was more interested in how many of these had neuter roots.

 

[rich p]

Rolland rollin' on...

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Hope Rolland gets this

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Hope Rolland gets this

600 metres uphill and 400 down, 28'' the lead. He should have it.

 

[rich p]

Chapeau

 

[Fight.The.Power]

600 metres uphill and 400 down, 28'' the lead. He should have it.

Oh haha - think my feed was a bit delayed

 

[dragon72]

Flippin' eck. Cannondale-Drapac winning bike races now. Whatever next?

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Rolland also does the worlds best impression of Tommy Voeckler