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Re: Sex-neutral gender?

From:daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>
Date:Sunday, January 20, 2002, 13:01
David Starner wrote:

> 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?
Do these genders have any special phoneme or letter associated with them? Swedish has two grammatical genders called n-gender and t-gender (or uter and neuter or neuter and real). I imagine present day German could call the genders something like r-gender for masc, s-gender for neut, and possibly ie-gender for fem. You could do something similar. ||| daniel -- danielandreasson@swipnet.se | http://home.swipnet.se/escape [new]