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Re: [OT] Grammatic gender
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: [OT] Grammatic gender |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:56:07 -0500 |
Hi Simon,
> On Nov 14, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Again, here English is very unusual because words do not have a gender
>> (the objects they refer to may, but that's different ... :-)
>
> How would that be true?
See, e.g., <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender>:
Although Old English had grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter;
as in Modern German), modern English is not considered to have them and aside
from a handful of nouns such as "god" and "goddess", "duke" and "duchess",
"tiger" and "tigress", and "waiter" and "waitress", gender is found almost
exclusively in pronouns and titles.
> It may seem so, because the articles for all three genders are the same, but
> words are referred to by ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’. In English the sun is male,
> the moon female
I've spoken English my entire life, and I have literally never heard an
exchange like:
Q: Is the sun up yet?
A: Yes — he rose an hour ago.
=)
Cheers,
Kieren.
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