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Your point is unclear to me. Gender doesn't mean genre in contemporary English. And context is enough to distinguish grammatical gender from other meanings usua
by pseudalopex 5y ago
Your point is unclear to me. Gender doesn't mean genre in contemporary English. And context is enough to distinguish grammatical gender from other meanings usually.
- hprotagonist 5y agoexcept when context is not enough; i.e., when a grammatical gender form applies to nouns that describe persons with social genders. And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
- pseudalopex 5y agoNouns that describe persons with social genders have matching grammatical genders usually. And you have to distinguish when talking about both at once obviously. > And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”. Seems rare to me.