Re: Another question: genders
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 10, 2000, 2:30 |
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"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.
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