Re: Gender in language

benlizross wrote:
that, a long time ago, somebody started tagging these associated words
to indicate what kind of noun they were modifying. This may often be
redundant, but redundancy is a normal feature of language. (Why do we
have to change "this" to "these" in "this dog/these dogs"?)

Hey, I never thought about that before. Whereas "the" is invariant (as is "yon"). It occurs to me that not only could we dispense with this/these and that/those, but we could likewise eliminate "a" and extend the use of "some" to the singular, without fear of ambiguity.

Do you have some car?
Some cat came in the window.
I had some bad day today. I came down with some cold.
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