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What did we do before key fobs?! (he said, even though his current car doesn’t have a key fob)
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Annoyed and over it, Knox turned from Rodrigo and said, “whatever. Just be careful. And good luck finding her car.” Rodrigo said, “tut” as he began rummaging in Val’s bag which Picknar/Val is wearing. Finding keys inside, Rodrigo said, “Thoos and Picknar, what genders are you, by the way?” Val said, “we don’t have genders on our planet. are you gendered?” Rodrigo pressed the button on Val’s key fob and her car unlocked with a “beedle-eep,” and he said “historically, mostly yes. Knox and I are hes, and I’d say that Valerie and Audri both pass as shes, but who knows how they identify.” Knox called “Mateo’s Pub, see you there,” and Rodrigo casually waved his hand in reply without looking back and he and Pickner headed to Val’s car. Getting in their lime green lowrider, Knox said to Thoos, “come on.” Thoos got in as well and said, “so I might identify as a she? Separating genders always sounded almost… inappropriate to me.” Knox said, “then call yourself genderqueer, I don’t care. You’ve got boobs, so I’m not attracted to you.” Thoos said, “that sounds almost inappropriate too.”
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With my first remote fob, I often used it to lock and unlock my car. Gradually, I changed to using the inside door switch to lock and the outside door handle to unlock, so my fob just stays in my pocket.
Same same, although car auto-lock if the fob is out of range. Wouldn’t be surprised tho if my next ride would just detect my phone and roll with it.
I know people who come out of a store and have no idea which direction it is to their car. I suppose fobs are a godsend to them. For me, it’s remembering what life was like before cell phones. You could tell who a person’s real friends were by whether or not they had their phone number memorized.
Remember them 20 years later.
Grammatical genders are fun, because they don’t always (roughly) correspond to sex. For example in some languages, the genders are more like “animate/inanimate”, so you have inanimate gender for things like rocks and trees, and animate gender for things like people and animals. Sometimes there’s a distinction between “common” gender and “neutral” gender because they are different notions. Languages are weird and fun.
Grammatical gender is a subset of broader noun-classification systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class).
Swahili and other Bantu languages have umpteen noun classes (seriously – nearly 20 of them! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_languages#Noun_class), with pronouns, adjectives, and even verbs changing to match the class of the relevant noun.
Navajo doesn’t have grammatical noun classes quite the same way. Instead, various verbs use one of eleven totally separate stems based on the shape and other characteristics of the noun, like whether it’s a solid round object, a slender stiff object, a mushy blob of something, or an animate object, among other types (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar#Classificatory_verbs).
Polynesian languages, meanwhile, use different prepositions based on the relation of nouns to each other. To say that a giant pot is “for you”, that could mean either that it is “for you [to use]”, or “for you [to be cooked in]”. There’s a story (possibly apocryphal?) of a hapless missionary who went to visit a prominent chief with a gift of a giant cast-iron pot, wound up using the wrong version of the word for “for”, and was never seen again… ????
If the mind transfer lets them use and understand their semantic neurological centres would it also let them understand all the remaining memory and so know about genders, cars, and how to drive them?
What the chaps don’t know is, the ladies came in two cars since they only met at the pools. ThereKs another car parked somewhere, unless one of them came by other means.
I’m a paranoid old curmudgeon. Got a car old enough I can use the actual key, instead of the remote functions, to unlock the doors. Battery lasts longer for if there is ever a situation where _need_ to use fob as a remote. Meanwhile, less opportunities for a thieve’s radio to pick up my codes
There’s probably people both smart enough and ignorant enough that they try to pick up codes… from a 76 El Camino’s doors. Smart with the tech, REALLY, REALLY DUMB about anything from before 2010.