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Re: a question about names

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 2004, 22:19
In a message dated 9/29/2004 10:30:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:

>Klingon has no gender distinctions either.
Klingon has different pronouns for (a) beings capable of using language and (b) everything else. That's "gender" in the usual linguistc sense*, isn't it? *"Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behavior of associated words" (according to Greville Corbett quoting C.F. Hockett).

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