Re: Semantic Content of Grammatical Gender?
| From: | Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 2, 2009, 1:18 |
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> From: ollock@GMAIL.COM> Looks like an urban legend to me. Word-reference shows
> "first lady" as> "primera dama". Also, it lists the feminine of "presidente"
> as "presidenta"> -- not "presidente" -- which is interesting, maybe the
> irregular marking> comes from those countries wanting to emphasize that they
> have a female> president?>
Could it possibly be a dialectical thing? There are a number of Spanish-Speaking
countries in the world, after all.
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