In <[email protected]>, on 08/04/2013
at 02:34 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> said:
>English has more homonyms than other languages I know, and it is
>imprecise; it could be improved by introducing gender specific
>articles
That would open several other cans of worms. Also, genders don't
translate well between languages.
>(e.g., you cannot translate "the child" into Spanish without knowing
>the child's gender,
That sounds like a problem in Spanish; how do you refer to a child
whose sex you do not know?
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