Re: Genders (Forgive me for this :) )
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2000, 18:50 |
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
> I didn't know who to ask on the list about this so, here it is on the main
> list....
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> On one of the message boards I frequent, one of the posters asked "Why
> English doesn't have any genders (for the most part) attached to nouns?".
>
> There are linguists on the board, but I said i'd ask just in case none of
> the resident linguists on the board answered it.
Well, I'm not a linguist, but I seem to recall my OE teacher mentioning
that when French and OE (both of which are gendered) met, the genders
didn't always agree so they were often dropped.