Re: Sex-neutral gender?
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 20, 2002, 9:44 |
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, David Starner wrote:
> I'm working on Sherall in my free time. Sherall is another language of
> the Sherall, who I mentioned in posts about Llirine. Sherall is a
> Germantic language, a direct descendent of modern German. In its
> adaption to the Sherall, it became a gender-neutral language, but kept
> the grammatical gender of German. So then what would the three genders
> be called? I've thought of Red, Blue and Green, but I was wondering if
> there were any natural examples of this, or if anyone had better ideas?
Masc, fem. and neut. could still be used. After all, you aren't going to
tell me that German uses the grammatical genders in the same way as
biological sexes. Skirts masculine, jeans feminine and girls neuter...
that's just random... (okay, so maedchen(sp) has a logical reason to be
neuter... but if German *wasn't* sex-neutral in its genders, wouldn't it
have become feminine pretty early on?).
Or perhaps I've missed the point entirely...
My year 9 German teacher use knife, fork and spoon for various reasons.
Tristan
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