Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 10:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)
>
>
> > Quoting BP Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> >
> > > Swedish is fortunate to have an epicene pronoun _den_.
> >
> > Tangentially, I've got _den_, _han_ "he" and _hon_ "she" in free
> variation
> as
> > the pronoun refering to male cats. Irritates my sister, who's got a
> male
> cat,
> > no end.
> >
> > For female cats, it's _hon_ or _den_.
> >
> >                                                      Andreas
> >
>
> In English, "they" is the epicene pronoun.
But I'm sure as spellcheck getting it wrong not going to refer tp my sister's
cat as "they"!

                                                              Andreas