"but I used to think on this and wonder why all the strong, positive, and creative words seemed to be assigned the grammatical masculine gender"
Words that are grammical feminine in French : strength (la force), creativity (la créativité), freedom/liberty (la liberté), equality (l'égalité), life (la vie), death (la mort), knowledge (la mort), improvement (l'amélioration)... I don't know where your affirmation comes from. Caroline 2011/12/30 Johannes Rohr <[email protected]> > > Am 30.12.2011 03:13 schrieb "Sarah Stierch" <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > While a discussion was taking place on this list about gender neutrality > and language, Victor (User:victorgrigas) and I were having a conversation > about it via email. Victor decided to create a page about "what language is > Wikipedia?" > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia > > > > Hopefully you will contribute to your own and other languages. > > > > Interesting mention about Russian Wikipedia, it states that they refer > to Wikipedia as a female, > > Sure. Same in German. In Slavic languages, most nouns ending in -a or -ya > are female, in German, it is somewhat similar. There is absolutely nothing > special about this. In Ukrainian, even the word for 'human' is female: > liudyna. But I doubt that this says much about culture or society.. > > Johannes > > similar to how in English we refer to ships as women. > > > > Aweee...even Klingon is featured }:) (How sentimental!) > > > > -Sarah > > > > > > -- > > Sarah Stierch > > Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow > > >>Support the sharing of free knowledge around the world: donate today<< > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gendergap mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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