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Article #2976Re: Gender and grammar
From: Pierre Jelenc
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 00:00
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Kalen <paradox@intelligencia.com> writes:
>
> Ok, that actually did clarify things for me a little. But why do
> they use "male" and "female" to describe the genders of words?
They don't; they use "masculine" and "feminine", meaning respectively
"like words that are declined according to the pattern most used for
words depicting males and females". There are many "male" words that
are feminine, and many "female" words that are masculine.
In French, most slang words for male genitalia are feminine, and
vice-versa.
Pierre
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