Re: Traditional gender-free "he" [was: Re: "16 and 276 are 292"? No. [was: Re: Lack of vocabulary in English?]]

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:13:07 +1000

Claude Beaudouin wrote:
> Wow. What a discussion.

> In my limited language education, my professors explained that
> linguistic/grammatical gender is separate and unrelated to biological
> gender. But maybe today they would not be considered PC.
>
> Imagine if we start discussing the injustices and appropriateness of the
> gender of nouns in the romance languages. Why is hand (la main) feminin
> and finger (le doigt) masculin in French?

Because le con and la bitte, of course! In that we follow the Romans
who said cunnus and mentula, not the Italians. Cazzo, potta?
Splitters!

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