Re: Gender neutral pronouns

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From: sven hauptfeld
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 06:42

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In article <M2T55J@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> bzfstoer@ZIB-Berlin.DE writes:
> 
>> Are there any languages that have a first person gender?
>
>Yes, the Slavic languages.
>Whenever I'm using a (1.st person singular) past tense verb in Polish or Russian,
>it gets the ending "lam" (in Polish) or "la" (in Russian),
>whereas men have to put "lem" or "l" to the past tense endings.
>The same distinction is made in 2. and 3. person singular past tense verbs.
>
Ditto for Croatian: -la for female, -o (which is, in fact, vocalized "l")
for males. Difference between Croatian and Polish is that Croatian also
requires a modal verb "to be" (which is not gender dependent).

>I think this is absolutely practical.
>[...]

Good point.

>Mechthild Stoer 
>

Sven Hauptfeld

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