Re: Gender

Am 04.12.01, Jörg Rhiemeier yscrifef:

> Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with the generic pronoun `they'? Although I'd say `it' too...
> > `Don't give your baby an abortion! Have you asked it if it wants to die?'
>
> To turn attention back to conlangs:
>
> In Germanech, you can neither say "it", because there is no neuter
> gender
> (only masciline and feminine, as in most Romance languages), nor does
> the "they" trick work because the 3rd person plural pronoun has distinct
> masculine and feminine forms (_ils_ vs. _las_).  The "default" gender
> in Germanech is the masculine, though feminists in Germanje use the
> feminine as the default gender.
In Kerno, you can use "lo" (historically varying between masc. and
neut.) or "ce" the indefinite gender article.

Of course, il/le and la/al are masc. and fem. respectively.

> Jörg.
Padraic.
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Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.