I consider myself a fairly fluent non-native Spanish speaker. Did a degree yonks ago and watch a lot of Spanish stuff on Netflix. Currently addicted to the Spanish version of the Sewing Bee on the TVE player which has a whole new vocabulary which I never learned. (Lorca, Borges and Marquez don't really mention bias, seam allowance, overlockers and how a fabric drapes).
Anyway. One of the contestants is a very exuberant gay man called David. David is definitely male and doesn't "present" as female, whatever that means. David however speaks about himself using the female form of the adjectives/nouns - "Estoy muy contenta" or "Soy la jefa" or "me van a mirar y pensar - uy, que guapa!"
As a non-native speaker, it's really weird. The one other equally flamboyant gay contestant didn't do this at all but he was a little older. Anyone shed any light? (My current theory is that it's a self-obssessed millennial thing.).
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Spanish gendered adjectives?
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PineappleDanish · 04/03/2020 09:03
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