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Sex-neutral gender?

From:David Starner <starner@...>
Date:Sunday, January 20, 2002, 8:26
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?

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