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20851426 No.20851426 [Reply] [Original]

The English language just sucks.

It doesn't even have a word for "female dog" for common usage.

>> No.20851512

bitch

>> No.20851580

>>20851512
yeah nah

>> No.20851613

she-dog
doggess

>> No.20851911

your mom

>> No.20852082
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>>20851426
Why does there need to be a word for "female dog" in common usage? If you are a regular person you will just use "dog" or "female" or female pronouns. This is perfectly fine. If you are a breeder or some other dog-focused specialty, you will use "bitch" and everyone you speak to will agree with your usage or at least receive the signal that you specialize in dogs in some way.

>> No.20852086

>>20852082
>Why does there need to be a word for "female dog" in common usage?
^this guy has no experience with dogs and is most likely an atomized bugman

>> No.20852125

>>20851426
I would argue English's shortcoming is not its lack of a word for "female dog", but its inability to logically and consistently derive one.

>> No.20852144

>>20852125
Everytime I logically and consistently derive a word in English, normies look at me weird as if I crippled their heads.
>illiteracy
>everything is fine yes this we understand
>innumeracy
>WHAT COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE???

>> No.20852172

>>20852144
To be fair, "literate" is used a lot more everyday discourse than "numerate" so I don't know that the derivation is really the problem

>> No.20852185

>>20852125
OP here. that was my point. congrats on figuring it out.

>> No.20852203

>>20852086
I always thought bug men was referring to asians. Cause well they look like bugs

>> No.20852205

>>20852203
it's probably a backformation from that, yeah

>> No.20852227

>>20852086
The concept of female dog is just not important enough to have a dedicated word in common use. We have the word female, and we have the word dog. There is no word for female cat either. "Mare" is a female horse and if you used that in common usage, you would have to explain what it means OR it would be gratingly strange and out of place.

>>20852144
>>20852172
Indeed the derivation is not the problem. By using innumerate you have not demonstrated supreme powers of logic and linguistic expression, you have instead demonstrated an supreme failure in communication.

>> No.20852249

>>20852227
the concept of a female dog is as important as the concept of a female in general. what is a woman?

>> No.20852280

>>20852249
Do you fuck dogs?

>> No.20852310

>>20851613
doggette

>> No.20852349

>>20851426
What do you think the word bitch means you absolute troglodyte. Calling a girl a bitch is an insult because you are saying they are nothing more than a dog.

>> No.20852371

>>20852280
>>20852349
Q.E.D.

>> No.20852444

>>20852349
My issue is that the word bitch has by now thoroughly been appropriated for and by humans, and female dogs are left with no actual word that describes them
as for why that matters:
>>20852249
females are just different from males. female dogs are different from male dogs

>> No.20853242

>>20852082
It's crazy how 4chan used to go insane over this image

>> No.20853253

>>20852444
>My issue is that the word bitch has by now thoroughly been appropriated for and by humans, and female dogs are left with no actual word that describes them

Only if you are part of the lower class.

>> No.20853262

Breeders have begun using dam instead of bitch

>> No.20853268

>>20853262
To add to this, the males are referred to as sires

>> No.20853274

>>20851580
Bitch is the term, ESL retard. Try watching a dog show.

>> No.20853290

>>20852082
>>20853242
Who's this bitch

>> No.20853321

not only English did it, in Polish for example you have people coming up with shit like "psa" (as in "to jest moja psa") just to avoid saying "suka" because that's been reserved for human females you don't like

>> No.20853882

>>20852082
>that pic related
brb, going to go drown real quick

>> No.20853907

>>20851426
doga

>> No.20853929

>>20852144
>>innumeracy
>>WHAT COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE???
Seems like it'd be confused with "enumerate" in spoken language
Enumeracy is some kind of mathematics or accounting adjacent thing I'd imagine

>> No.20855067

>>20852086
>most likely an atomized bugman
aren't we all

>> No.20855116

"Female dog," which the user and hearer both know actually refers to bitch but isn't used because it sounds bad, gives an added flavor and meaning to a word you are invoking but not using.

>> No.20856002

>>20852125
I'd argue that's a failure of its speakers, not the language. Logically and consistently, it'd be she-dog, but Norman mind-fucking has made the average English-speaker afraid of anything that sounds too German.

>> No.20856344

>>20851426
>The English language just sucks.
It doesn't though. Anyone who says otherwise is a monolingual midwit.
And no, Hans, being raised on English from the moment you slipped out of your mothers cunt doesn't mean you're bilingual.