Jupiter lost a stripe

[N_Molson]

In French, only Earth, Moon & Sun have an explicit gendre.

Earth = "la Terre" (fem.)
Moon = "la Lune" (fem.)
Sun = "le Soleil" (masc.)

Most importantly, Planet (Planète) is a feminine noun. So, when you say "Mars", you're speaking of the "Planet Mars", not of the ancient god of war. The same for any other planets. The rule seems to expand to any natural satellites (though "Satellite" is a masculine noun).

The ISS is feminine too. Because it's a space station ("station spatiale"), and "station" is a feminine noun. The Atlantis space shuttle is feminine too, because "shuttle" ("navette") is feminine... But Ceres (a roman godess) is masculine, because it's an asteroid (and "astéroïde" is a masculine noun)... And so on...

By the way, the "lost stripe" thing is amazing... Gas giants are fascinating, because we can't explore them with our small and unperfect probes hail:).

 

[Tycho]

It's odd that this would happen in such a short amount of time (on a cosmic scale), you'd think that this would take a hundred thousand years!

 

[RisingFury]

I guess Jupiter got her period...

 

[Enjo]

No more moons then?

 

[Izack]

You know you're still in Orbiter-Forum when a thread about disappearing cloud bands turns into a discussion on the semantics of object personification.
You guys are so picky. :lol:

 

[Ghostrider]

In Italian all planets are male except for Earth. No articles are used, you say for instance "Mercurio" or "il pianeta Mercurio" and then decline all the verbs to the masculine. Moons are another matter, Europa is feminine while Titan is masculine.

 

[RangerPL]

Should we send a bug report to heaven?

 

[RisingFury]

In Slovenian Venus and Earth are female genders, all else are male. No middle gender for planets... yes, we have a middle gender words.

 

[SlashJr]

That would explain why I only resolved the north belt on Jupiter the other night

 

[eveningsky339]

Dutch makes a gender distinction between objects, but it always confuses me and I never know which one to use. It's even more complicated for a foreign language such as English, but I thought the rules for English were supposed to be relatively simple.

English rules are fairly simple, the only problem is there is always one million exceptions to any given rule.

Dutch sounds similar to Latin in terms of object genders. It's a matter of brutal memorization in terms of which gender to use.

 

[Wonderer]

Well in lithuanian only Venus (Venera), Earth (Žemė) and sun (Saulė) are female gender all other planets are male.Though this language isn't latin based, but it uses latin names for the planets (execpt for earth and the sun).It is very easy to tell what gendre what object is due to the ending of the name,so I think that Jupiter (Jupiteris) is male :blahblah:

 

[statickid]

Jupiter is like is the Roman form of the Greek god Zeus, so yes, Jupiter, from a mythological point of view, has a male personification.

 

[Urwumpe]

English rules are fairly simple, the only problem is there is always one million exceptions to any given rule.

Except the magnitude, this sounds like German. :lol:

German is pretty tough in that context: We say "Der Planet" (the planet, male), but also "Die Venus" (The Venus, female). In the most correct case, you can hear "Der Planet Venus" (The planet Venus). We also consider the sun female, while a star is male.

One thing that is pretty simple though: Ships names are always female. Even if the namesake is male ("Die Bismarck"). It is "Das Space Shuttle" but "Die Atlantis".

 

[statickid]

so the space shuttle as an object is neuter??? now can you tell me whey kameras are female?

 

[Urwumpe]

A camera is not female in German - it is neutral. The same applies also to the named cameras on a spacecraft. They are considered experiments and as such neutral as well.

 

[cinder1992]

:threadjacked:

I thought we were talking about the loss of a stripe on jupiter, not cameras and weather or not they are male or female or otherwise.

 

[KosmoKen]

I thought we were talking about the loss of a stripe on jupiter, not cameras and weather or not they are male or female or otherwise.

What if I were to ask what gender a Jupiter stripe was?

 

[Urwumpe]

What if I were to ask what gender a Jupiter stripe was?

And if horizontal stripes make fat, might it be better for Jupiter to convert to vertical stripes?

 

[bwog]

("Die Bismarck")

What was wrong with him?

I like it how some language's words mean something completely different in English.

 

[george7378]

I'm hoping to get a look at Jupiter this evening (or sometime soon) and see if I can spot the absence of the stripe. I saw the NEB and the SEB before, so I can't wait to look.