Re: Grammatical Gender

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 66447
Date: 2010-08-13




From: Etherman23 <etherman23@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 10:41:23 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Grammatical Gender

 



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Etherman23" <etherman23@> wrote:
> > I thought he was Dutch
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> You, sir, must be American.

Yes. So really Dutch, Swede, and Dane are all the same.

> > but figured I was wrong since he said his language was Swedish.
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> No, I didn't.

I misinterpreted what you said. You said they were all the same in your language and in paraentheses you wrote "Swedish" followed by the Swedish word.

> > I'm so out of the loop on this one.
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> Have you always been interested in linguistics?

I was born in 1970 so before then I wasn't.

A cunning linguist that ray-man