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One important thing not mentioned. English has no genders except in extremely rare cases. Other Indo-European languages are full of genders, like female tabl
by jmclnx 1y ago
One important thing not mentioned. English has no genders except in extremely rare cases. Other Indo-European languages are full of genders, like female tables, male autos, etc.
Trying to learn Spanish in high school, it was genders that confused me the most. Safe to say I just remember some words at this point.
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- dfawcus 1y agoEnglish only has sex, not gender. He, She, It. The commonly cited example of referring to ships as 'she' is simply an affectation, grammatically a ship is an it. Or can you provide another example I may have overlooked?
- jmclnx 1y agoI was thinking of ship, I am far from a language scholar.