Re: Gender
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 27, 1998, 0:39 |
Steg Belsky wrote:
> Hmm...i never thought about that. But i doubt that a corpse would be put
> in the neuter category, since all it is is a person who is
> "life-impaired" as the joke goes - and people (except for artificial
> androids, etc.) can't be of the neuter gender.
Well, it seems natural to me (since a corpse *is* inanimate), but to
each his own, I suppose.
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