Re: Gender and grammar

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From: Mark Rosenfelder
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 00:00

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In article <803sbq$4ga6@odds.stat.purdue.edu>,
Herman Rubin <hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu> wrote:
>The above sentence would be 
>
>	"I put the key x on the book y."
>	"I don't see y."
>
>The variables x and y can be replaced by any other symbols
>or combinations of symbols which are not used for something
>else at the time.

Lojban has explicit variables; more simply, it also has a series of
noun-class pronouns.  The classes are, cleverly, the initial letters
of the words!  It's as if we could say

   I don't see kit.
   I don't see bit.

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Date: 1999/11/08
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