Suddenly today I realise that the english language has no gender. How can anybody live or exist without a gender? What a horryfying insight. Me myself have been raised up in a land with a language that has gender on everything and it's tricky to know what gender you should use. Sometimes no one really knows and we are just guessing.
But without gender you are nobody.. reduced to... ..it.
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2 comments:
Yes, isn't it strange. We English grapple initially with this concept when learning foreign languages in school. Yet, think, how we also "genderise" (have I just made up that word) nouns, "she" for cars and boats plants, for example.
Love your blog....must read more.
Genderise.. yes, can sometimes be a bit confusing, take boats that is always called upon with a female gender. Gets funny when for example Tugboats often have male names, like "Hector" or "Karl-Oskar" but they are still "she" when people talk about them. Even barges with such cold names as "Mud Carrier IV" you speak obout in terms like; She could carry 100 tonnes.
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