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To: artichokegrower

What do the Spanish speakers do. Every word is gender.


2 posted on 01/21/2019 6:09:56 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Same with German and French. Every word has a gender.

Masculine, feminine.

No, zirs, no zhes, only boys and girls, because that’s all there is, despite what the pointless offspring of a fading species believe.


7 posted on 01/21/2019 6:14:41 AM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Ah, but “ellos” is used for a mixed group. **cough**


9 posted on 01/21/2019 6:16:32 AM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

They should learn Tagalog! It is a very common language in California after all.

It is genderless, as are all the other Austronesian languages (the other Philippine languages, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, etc.). Tagalog is one of the more complex languages of this family though, and is not the easiest for English speakers to learn.

However, if the idea is that a genderless language leads to ungendered behavior ... lets say that the situation among the peoples who speak the Austronesian tongues does not support that wish.


34 posted on 01/21/2019 7:23:36 AM PST by buwaya
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