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I wonder if that's connected to gender-marking languages like French randomly gendering most nouns? It seems like that could weaken the significance of a words'

• emmelaich 9y ago
  Yeah, I asked my French teacher whether you could say "s'elle vous plait" instead of "s'il vous plait". She laughed, probably because of the shear novelty of such a thought. It would never occur to a native speaker.