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To: metmom

I think other languages have the same issues, with gender nouns and adjectives.

will those languages evolve, to make the radical feminist types happy?

Does English have any such gender issues?


7 posted on 03/08/2019 3:38:01 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

the problem in English is that the preferred-by-some ‘they’ and ‘them’ are not singular.
One person is transformed into a multiple. Example: “They are smart and we are proud of them.’ It just doesn’t come off right and leaves people looking around for the rest of ‘them’. And implies that ‘they’ are more important than ‘I’.


9 posted on 03/08/2019 3:47:32 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

English does not have the same kinds of gender forms.

The nouns are basically all *it*, and there is no modifying the adjectives to agree with the gender of the nouns.

English has many of its own quirks that make it difficult to learn, but noun gender is not one of them.


13 posted on 03/08/2019 4:10:25 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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