Re: Genders (was Re: Láadan and woman's speak
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 4, 2000, 17:27 |
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Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Okay, allow me to quibble a bit: "no grammatical gender correlating
> with the physical gender".
Gender in linguistics doesn't mean biological sex, in most of the
European languages it roughly corresponds to sex (which is how gender
came to be used for biological sex), but that doesn't apply everywhere.
> Well, funny that, in colloquial Finnish 'hän' seems to be disappearing
> fast... instead of saying 'hän meni'(he went) in everyday speech
> people say 'se meni' (it went).
Interesting.
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