Re: Gender [was: RE: Betreft: Writing Systems and Biscriptal Children]
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 2, 1999, 1:47 |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, FFlores wrote:
> Most of my langs don't have gender; it looks messy to me (and unexotic!).
> But most of them do distinguish fem/masc/inanimate in 3rd person pronouns.
Just a word in favor of gender: one advantage to gender is the
word-building power it gives you. You yourself point it out by showing
the differences, in Spanish, between, for example, bolso and bolsa. This
is handy in conlang terms -- saves a little time in vocabulary building.