The car is a woman
Dec 31, 2020
3 minutes
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“L’automobile è femmina”, “the car is a woman”. That’s what Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian writer in 1920, about the Fiat 4 he had the chance to drive on one of his expeditions.
As many of you probably know, nouns in Italian (and other romance languages) have genders. They can either be masculine or feminine. At the time, there was a bit of a debate over the gender of the car; only men could drive it, men had invented it, men took care of.
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