Re: Láadan and woman's speak

At 08:35 22/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Most interesting is the chapter that deals with the phonetic basis of
>gender in
>French and German.  The, to my mind, amazing fact that native speakers will
>assign the same gender to a newly coined word.  I don't remember details
about
>French, but he claims Germans will almost always give a monosyllabic word
>"Masculine" case.
>
Well, I think that in French, most words that would sound as if they had a
mute written "e" at the end (that's to say words ending in pronounced
consonnant clusters) would be treated feminine. It would be the same for
words ending in /e/ or /a/. Words ending with only one consonnant or
another vowel would be more likely to be seen as masculine. Well, that's
only a first thought about it so I may be wrong :) .

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