----- 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.