Re: Another question: genders

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

>"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,
Just poking my head in: what negative connotations does ambivalent
have for you? Me, I'm neither one way nor the other.

Padraic.

>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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