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Ian Molton <ian.molton@dtn.ntl.com> wrote in message
news:38231308.721F7630@dtn.ntl.com...
> "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.

Given that I was telling you that they *do* share a root (rather, one is the
root of the other), if you weren't arguing that they don't, then what were
you arguing about?