Re: Gender (was Re: Homosexuality and gender identity)

Nik Taylor scripsit:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > Where there is no correlation whatever,
> > as in Swahili, we just speak of "noun class 1", "noun class 2", etc.
>
> Swahili *does* have correlation.  Class 1/2 is "human", Class 3/4 "thin
> or extended objects, trees", Class 5/6 "fruits, objects that tend to
> come in groups" (the second in each pair is plural).
Correlation with masculine/feminine/neuter was what I meant.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
I must confess that I have very little notion of what [s. 4 of the British
Trade Marks Act, 1938] is intended to convey, and particularly the sentence
of 253 words, as I make them, which constitutes sub-section 1.  I doubt if
the entire statute book could be successfully searched for a sentence of
equal length which is of more fuliginous obscurity. --MacKinnon LJ, 1940