In a recent post, I made a reference to the way Latin languages have genders for about every noun. Naturally I went on to provoke several countries (as one does in the interest of interest) by calling them girls. I think this provocation should go further, because I believe that public derogative remarks are the best and finest kind of humor. Therefore, here is a little list, based on the Portuguese language (but should apply to other Latin languages) of the countries represented in the
poll.
United States - lots of male (plural) with a hint of San Francisco (America is female)
Canada - male (despite having a "queen" for head of state)
Mexico - male (we all saw that one coming, specially with the mustache deal going on)
I'm not of this earth - male (but perhaps that species goes through gender stages)
Luxembourg - male (however, if the size of the country is indicative of anything...)
All the others - female (well, I'll get to you ladies later on, after I establish that I am actually kidding about all this, and that despite all appearences I am not a prejudiced guy)
For now, I'll just end this post by going back to the USA, which after consultation of a Florida map appears to be clearly male. But then again, cosmetic surgery has come a long way in the last decades. Well, I guess Uncle Sam will remain our weird uncle for a while longer.