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- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.032804.13413@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:28:04 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.003451.27818@samba.oit.unc.edu> <C07wIH.HHz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1993Jan2.130701.3358@pollux.lu.se>
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- In article <1993Jan2.130701.3358@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
- >You may of course say that the German language is sexist, since it
- >assigns the masculine gender to _all_ human beings by default, as it
- >were.
- >On the other hand, the Swedish word for 'human', 'M"anniska', always
- >takes the feminine pronoun.
-
- And to round things out, in German, following the logical rule that all
- diminutives are neuter, girls have no gender at all. Das Fraeulein (neuter)
- is the diminutive of "die Frau" (the (feminine gender) woman).
-
- Bruce "first time I've ever heard that in the pluperfect subjunctive" Tindall
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