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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: news.admin,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Keywords: Sexual, gender, discrimination,pronouns,language
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Date: 23 Jul 88 23:47:07 GMT
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In article <32059@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>You are confusing language gender (French la vs. le, German der vs. das) and
>denotation of sex (English he/she, master/mistress, French monsieur/madame,
>Spanish Santa vs. San). The two are not related. Indeed, many nouns that carry
>denotation of sex will have the opposite gender.

First, German has three, der - masculine, die - feminine, and das - neuter.

I still wonder, when speaking in German, should I call my male cat he or she?
(Die Katze)  (As you may be able to tell, I don't speak much German anymore,
and no one ever told me this anyway...)

Frank Swarbrick (and, yes, the net.cat)           swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU
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