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To: fwdude

“Neuter” is not a gender.


14 posted on 11/18/2025 3:40:00 AM PST by TurkeyLurkey ( )
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To: TurkeyLurkey

In German it is.


18 posted on 11/18/2025 4:20:37 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: TurkeyLurkey

The point is that sex is biological but gender is a construct of language. When sex is meant, let’s say sex. Gender should only be used when talking about language. Many languages recognize 3 genders. (In English, “it” is the vestigial neuter pronoun.) But I don’t know of any that recognize more than three.


23 posted on 11/18/2025 5:14:27 AM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: TurkeyLurkey

Your education failed you. They probably didn’t teach high school Latin but they should have taught Junior High English.


35 posted on 11/18/2025 6:31:32 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: TurkeyLurkey
“Neuter” is not a gender.

It is. When you use the article "das" before the German word for window, "Fenster," it is considered a neuter word.

This is completely arbitrary in many languages, of course, and has nothing to do with sex.

40 posted on 11/18/2025 8:12:13 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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