Re: Gender and grammar

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From: Larry Arnold
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 00:00

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Mark Rosenfelder <markrose@enteract.com> wrote in message
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> In article <38226F76.1267CEDA@intelligencia.com>,
> Kalen  <paradox@intelligencia.com> wrote:

>
> As for the purpose of gender, consider English vs. French:
>   --J'ai mis la cle sur le livre.  --Je ne le vois pas.
>   "I put the key on the book."  "I don't see it."
>
> Is it the key or the book that the second person can't see?  In French
it's
> obvious, because of the gender.

In this case yes, but what if you were mising la cle onto la table, you
coudn't tell anything by gender then.
of course it would take a particularly large key to hide a table !! :)

Larry

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