Re: Another question: genders
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:54 |
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:30:47PM -0400, Nik Taylor wrote:
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> > The
> > ambivalent gender is used in cases like words referring to married couples
> > (as already mentioned), or to hermaphrodite creatures (if there were a
> > noun for earthworms in the language, it'd be in the ambivalent gender).
>
> Hmm, "hermaphroditic"? Ambivalent has kinda negative connotations.
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 :-)
T