Re: Another question: genders

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> Well, "hermaphroditic" may have negative connotations in English, but the
> ambivalent gender in the language doesn't. It's merely a distinction that
> the particularly picky culture behind the language has chosen to make.
> Perhaps I should just stick with "ambivalent", esp. if other words have
> negative connotations associated with them :-)
No, I meant that the word "ambivalent" has negative connotations,
hermaphroditic doesn't have any negative connotations that I know of,
it's merely a clinical term.  Androgynous would also work, I guess.

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