thinking about Tron translations again (Tronslations?)

and I got to thinking about linguistic genders

and well. there are two languages that I studied enough to know offhand what a Program is

German: das Programm

Spanish: el programa

which… actually makes me happy.

because I have always viewed program gender as very fluid and nonbinary (hah) (they are very familiar with binary, okay. they know what it is, and it’s Not That)

anyway

I like these translations because it shows that in both languages, Program is kinda genderqueer

in German it takes the neuter (not male or female) article “das”

in Spanish, there is no such neuter article; everything is either masculine or feminine, with masculine being treated more as the default and used when other languages would not be gender-specific

and Program is a masculine noun, taking both the masculine article “el,” and adjectives with the “-o” ending…

BUT, the noun itself ends with “-a” …which is… very gender-nonconforming for a masculine noun.

so yep. Genderqueer programs all the way.