Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

Tristan wrote:
>Even I, a native English speaker who has never spoken a language without
>he/she/it, mucks them up, as well as brother and sister (so I normally
>fall back on `sibling')...
That's another weirdity of learning English in school - they tell you that
there simply is no direct translation of the Swedish word _syskon_
"sibling", and that if you desperately need to translate ie you have to use
"brother or sister" (unless you've got a feminist teacher - she would tell
you to write "sisiter or brother"!:-)).

                                                          Andreas

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