And in the Phillippines personal pronouns have no sex at all. Causes
much confusion here when recent immigrants talk about him when they
mean her or vice versa.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Similarly, in France, The Netherlands, Germany, and so on, people
> automatically recognise the gender (or absence of gender), for
> every thing
> there is. For English speakers who never need to think of a tree,
> house, car,
> flower etc as having a gender, this is hard to deal with, and the
> difficulty in
> translation and conversation is compounded by (at least Dutch)
> dictionaries
> not containing the gender information.
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