Re: John in Terkunan

In a message dated 8/10/2007 3:21:48 AM Central Daylight Time,
philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes:


> Surely, languages in which all nouns have gender will have so many
> nouns of seemingly arbitrary gender that this is less likely to be a
> problem?
>
> For example, I don't think that just because "das Wort" is neuter in
> German means that God is necessarily inanimate.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Italian uses a feminine word for "word": parola.

Nel principio era la Parola, e la Parola era con Dio, e la Parola era Dio.

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