Re: Gender in language

In message <1159501533.800645.21300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, willcesium@xxxxxxxxx writes
First off, having grammatical genders isn't something people chose to
do. No one made a conscious decision to divide nouns up into different
categories, it just ended up happening that way. Gender is, in fact,
hardwired into the language component of the brain.

Don't you find it odd, then, that some languages have no expression of that "hard-wired" feature?

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Richard Herring
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