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Re: Gender

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:24
En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> > On a tangential note, in Swedish _människa_ "human" is female by > default.
That's a strange one! A former neuter that was reanalysed as feminine due to the ending?
> For some possibly good reason, feminists never complain about that > one. >
Which proves that they are not as much feminists as they are anti- masculinists :))) . If they were really for the equality of both sexes, they would also complain about this one. BTW, does Swedish have a neuter gender? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.