just in case this hasn't been answered yet ...
on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated:
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote:
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated:
...
of course, you can create various
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:12, David Palmer. wrote:
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Most of our modern knowledge of the Celts
comes from the Roman campaigners' reports, in particular Julius Caesar
who fought a protracted campaign against the Celts in Britain, as the
Celts had an oral history not written.
There are Welsh
One time on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:20:57AM +0100 this person named Pigeon wrote:
People who insist on using eg. chairperson instead of chairman or
chairwoman, and invent ugly pronouns like hir to do duty for both
him and her instead of using the they fudge that everyone else
has been happy
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:00:53 +0100
Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:12, David Palmer. wrote:
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Most of our modern knowledge of the Celts
comes from the Roman campaigners' reports, in particular Julius Caesar
who fought a protracted campaign against the
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote:
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
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- Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German,
does have gender?
looks like a lot of unneccessary stuff was removed from english
language
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote:
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
- Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German,
does have gender?
looks like a lot of unneccessary stuff was removed from english
language
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:08:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Here's another one:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html
'But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. The
Celts weren't pushed to the fringes of Scotland and Wales; a lot of
them remained in England and
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:49:14 -0500
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote:
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
- Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor,
German,
does have
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 05:24, Tom wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:08:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Here's another one:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html
'But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. The
Celts weren't pushed to the fringes of Scotland and
on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered - What is
the purpose of gender in grammar/language?
Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come
David Palmer. wrote:
...
First in were the Gaels (Irish) through Skandinavia, then the Icenii
Brythonics (which is where 'Briton' and then 'Britain' came from) and
some lesser tribes, such as the Manx.
But none of these spoke German, either high, middle or low. Germany as a
territory was defined
Pigeon wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered
- What is the purpose of gender in grammar/language?
Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things
like all the words for female genitals
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated:
...
Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across
things like all the words for female genitals in lots of languages
having the masculine gender. Work that one out.
yeah, or a fork being feminine,
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:43:17AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Pigeon wrote:
Also, what do the advocates of gender-neutral language do in German?
And what do they do in French?
not sure about those countries but in slovakia (with 'genderic'
language) there is no such thing as gender
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:56:09AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated:
...
Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across
things like all the words for female genitals in lots of languages
having the
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:24, Tom wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:43:17AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Pigeon wrote:
[snip]
English has a neuter pronoun: one, but it became associated with
aristocratic speech and is unpopular. If there's one thing I will never
understand, it is New Yorkers
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:05:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated:
Also, what do the advocates of gender-neutral language do in
German? And what do they do in French?
what do you mean by advocates of gender-neutral languages? people
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Erik Steffl wrote:
Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated:
...
of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in
english, the
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered
- What is the purpose of gender in grammar/language?
as far as I can tell there's no purpose (not a linguist but my native
language has genders, can't find any reason other then that it has
genders:-)
- Is it only
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
- Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German,
does have gender?
looks like a lot of unneccessary stuff was removed from english
language (last century or two?), as far as I can tell it's because
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:58:39PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
If you want
to know what Anglo-Saxon was like, go to the islands off the coast of
Frysia.
There's an island called Ocrakoke on the NC Outer Banks with a highly
unusual accent: (almost) Elizabethan english mixed with a redneck
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered
- What is the purpose of gender in grammar/language?
Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things
like all the words for female genitals in lots of
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