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minus-square@Lophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoWhat’s wrong with just ‘general’?
minus-square@DragonTypeWyvernlinkEnglish3•edit-26 months 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-square@Lophostemon@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-26 months 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?