Re: French (was Re: Re: Optimum number of symbols)

Christophe wrote:
>Strangely enough, I have already decided that in Maggel, a language full of
>excentricities, ships will be masculine, and that the word "captain" will
>actually be a compound meaning "ship's wife" and keeping the gender of the
>word "wife" :)))) , that's to say feminine, even though most captains are
>male :)) . Note that Maggel has three genders: masculine, feminine and
>neuter,
>and unlike most gendered languages doesn't have a straightforward way to
>change
>the gender of a noun, even if it refers to humans, but also is very strong
>on
>keeping the grammatical gender when it clashes with the natural gender,
>even
>with the use of pronouns :))) .
Way to go, Christophe! I've always had a soft spot for Germans refering to
girls as "it" (_Mädchen_ "girl" being neuter 'cos of the dimunitive ending).

                                                               Andreas

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