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- From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
- Message-ID: <CINDY.93Jan3135521@solan10.solan.unit.no>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 12:55:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.003451.27818@samba.oit.unc.edu> <C07wIH.HHz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu's message of 3 Jan 93 03:28:04 GMT
-
- Bruce Tindall writes:
- >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).
-
- In Norwegian, the word for "the person", no gender specified, is
- "mennisket" - which is neuter! Fortunately, the word is almost always
- used in the plural, so there's no problem about pronouns. I've never
- heard anyone use the pronoun "it" when using the singular, however -
- people chose "he" or "she", depending.
-
- -Cindy Kandolf (i'm not dead yet)
- cindy@solan.unit.no
- Trondheim, Norway
-