Re: Semantic Content of Grammatical Gender?
| From: | Brett Williams <mungojelly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 1, 2009, 15:31 |
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On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> BTW does _male nurse_ sound right to you English native speakers? To me it's
> up there with _Ms. Chairman_, but it may be that my feelings for the Swedish term.
"Male nurse" sounds natural enough to me, but dated.
"Madam Chairman" I love. Kinda genderbending. I wish we could keep
it and just square it up even by calling the men "Mister Chairwoman".
No?
<3,
mungojelly-l, who if he were a male nurse would reinforce the trend