Re: What's a gender?

Hi!

Remi Villatel writes:
> On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:50, Eldin Raigmore wrote:
>
> > @Mark: I forgot to mention that "genders" are _obligatory_.  That is,
> > they are concordial noun-classes such that every noun is in one and only
> > one of them, and can't change.
>
> I answer even if this wasn't addressed to me 'cause I liked this part.
>
> My first reaction when I read this: "Hooray! I broke another
> universal!"  ;-)
Hehe.

Does it count as breaking that universal if the gender changes between
singular and plural?  Since French and Italian have some examples
(deriving from the Latin neuter: sg.m. ouvo, pl.f. ouve 'egg','eggs'.
(And I think 'orgue' is a French example that switches gender.)

**Henrik

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