Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:29:25 +0200 Lars Henrik Mathiesen
> <thorinn@...> writes:
> >   Fascinating!  I'd never even THOUGHT of that as a problem.  But now
> > that  I think about it, your absolutely right, why isn't "lettuce" an=
d
> > "rice" countable?  ESPECIALLY lettuce, since it's so large, you can
> easily
> > have "one lettuce".
>
> >Cattle. Furniture.
>
> Isn't the singular of cattle "cow/bull"?
Well, the way I've always seen it is that cattle and furniture are
colective, reather than plural nouns, translated into Spanish as _ganado_
and _mobiliario_... by the way, can cattle be used of sheep?

Anyhow, in spanish the _singulars_ would be "cabeza de ganado" (lit. head=
 of
cattle) and "mueble".

> -Stephen (Steg)
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