What are they teaching these kids in school these days??

[Amina516]

I thought "F" meant frequently and "M" was for Monthly.

Ok, so I read this last night.........

....and didnt get it til right now.....LOL. OMG..i am so tired.

[dalesys]

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual. Never heard the 'n' before though.

L = Lots
G = Gadzooks
B = ?
T = ?
N = None (Neuter)

[Ironclad Alibi]

L = Lots
G = Gadzooks
B = ?
T = ?
N = None (Neuter)

L = Lots
G = Gadzooks
B = Barely enough
T = Talks about it
N = None

[Rapscallion]

That's why he got an F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited for how it should be.

Rapscallion

[Chromatix]

And then there's the grammar variant of gender.

French has only two (masculine, feminine), so you have to remember which applies to every single noun - even the inanimate ones.

German adds Neuter, so *most* inanimate nouns take that.

English technically has four genders, adding Common to the German set. Common refers to nouns which are animate but could be either gender - "child" is the classic example. However, I haven't actually been able to see any concrete difference between Common and Neuter in usage.

Finnish, for all it's other complications, leaves gender out of the grammar. There are words for man, woman, boy, girl - but he/she/it is all one word, as are similar cases. For that I am eternally thankful...