Comments on: Gender in Language http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2006/05/12/gender-in-language/ Various Epiphanies of a Technical Mind Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Migue http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2006/05/12/gender-in-language/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Migue Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:51:25 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=93#comment-43 Quote" I feel I am both lucky and cursed to speak English (a gender-neutral language) as my primary language - it makes understanding the usefulness of gender in other languages much more difficult" That's what make English a practical and easy language to learn (despite the pronunciation which is always a pain in the @#@!#@). Gender is beautiful in poetry, gender is not related with sex ) You can say in the opposite way. English doesn't; make any sense in consistency.,you can pronouns one word in two different ways , for example either, neither, or you can pronouns two different words exactly the same, for example hair, hare. Grammar in English is not consistent at all. Quote” I feel I am both lucky and cursed to speak English (a gender-neutral language) as my primary language – it makes understanding the usefulness of gender in other languages much more difficult”

That’s what make English a practical and easy language to learn (despite the pronunciation which is always a pain in the @#@!#@).

Gender is beautiful in poetry, gender is not related with sex ) You can say in the opposite way. English doesn’t; make any sense in consistency.,you can pronouns one word in two different ways , for example either, neither, or you can pronouns two different words exactly the same, for example hair, hare. Grammar in English is not consistent at all.

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