Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/05/Category:Sheep testicles
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Category:Sheep testicles[edit]
We should move this cat to a somehow "masculine" name. Ewes -testicles? No. Rams-testicles? Yes. E4024 (talk) 11:40, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Ram would be correct, ewe is the female form ("Mutterschaf" in German). While I think that most people who learned englisch in shool would know "bull" od "sheep", I think that most wouldn't know ram and therfore in looking in "mammal testicles" wouldn't see that the category is for the male sheep. --Kersti (talk) 11:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry. I also learned English at school. In Turkey we call them "koç yumurtası" (and eat a lot :) which literally mean "egg(s) of the ram". --E4024 (talk) 11:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- This is a difference between Turkey and Germany. Here most people eat mainly pork or sometimes beef. Of course this doesn't apply for people of Turkish descent, who in most cases won't eat pork. But this difference means in fact, that there may be differences in which words children learn at school which are related to the land where someone visits school. --Kersti (talk) 19:09, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Well, pork is cheap everywhere, the Spaniards say "the pork saved us (during and) after the Civil War", meaning that they could have protein eating every part of this humble animal that does not require too much husbandry. The pigs eat what they find in the nature, bathe in ponds and that's it. Of course all this small talk (mine and yours) are a little "chat" between Commons colleagues who work a lot, voluntarily, and need some small breaks. :) --E4024 (talk) 06:50, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- This is a difference between Turkey and Germany. Here most people eat mainly pork or sometimes beef. Of course this doesn't apply for people of Turkish descent, who in most cases won't eat pork. But this difference means in fact, that there may be differences in which words children learn at school which are related to the land where someone visits school. --Kersti (talk) 19:09, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry. I also learned English at school. In Turkey we call them "koç yumurtası" (and eat a lot :) which literally mean "egg(s) of the ram". --E4024 (talk) 11:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Keep after I had a look at the subcategories in Category:Mammal testicles. --Leyo 12:42, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- Keep 1: keeping the general term is helpful for non-native anglophones and hinders no one.
- 2: sex-specific terms are usually not exclusive to species, for instance cavies (guinea pigs) and actual pigs share terms for males and females. (But cavy young are pups, not piglets.)
- 3: some species have separate terms for juvenile and mature males and females.
- 4: rare intersex cases means it's possible to have, e.g., sheep testicles that don't belong to something that would be called a ram. --Pitke (talk) 14:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
- I understand two people -other than the cat opener- disagree with me, so if there is no-one supporting my opinion we can close this discussion within a short span of time. If there's nothing new until Monday, I'll be closing it. --E4024 (talk) 06:50, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
Done The discussion is closed. Thanks for your participation. --E4024 (talk) 07:05, 7 May 2018 (UTC)