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Re: Gender (was: Homosexuality and gender identity)

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 20:34
Christophe a écrit :

>Indeed. Actually, the fact that "personne" is a feminine word is a strong >source of difficulties for people, as they don't know what pronoun to use >when "personne" refers to a man. Personally, when I use it, I prefer to >refer a second time to the person with a "correctly" gendered noun (or the >name of that person) so that next time I can use the proper pronoun without >feeling uneasy about it.
I would imagine that there are similar diffiliculties with "la victime", at least from what I've heard in conversation. Kou

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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>