Re: Gender and grammar

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From: Ian Molton
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 00:00

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"D. Edward Gund v. Brighoff" wrote:
> 
> In article <38222C51.1EF77A56@dtn.ntl.com>,
> Ian Molton  <oddity@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
> >Harlan Messinger wrote:
> >>
> >> Because the original meaning of "gender" wasn't "sex"! It comes from the
> >> French "genre", meaning "kind", "type", or (English has borrowed the word)
> >> "genre".  It came into English with these meanings. It came to be used as a
> >> synonym for "sex", but also to describe classes of words belonging to a
> >> language.
> >
> >forgive me for being stupid here but gender and genre are NOT the same
> >word in my book...
> Perhaps you need a better book.

Im not arguing they dont share a root.

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