https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27744
--- Comment #10 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 2011-09-23 10:34:22 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > undisclosed (what unspecified is now called) should already be a gender > neutral > for the languages that support it... That is not so. For most Germanic languages that I am aware of, the actual use is not compatible with the neuter Gender. You need to be aware that quite often, grammatical and natural gender deviate from each other, and while the natural gender governs the genderized use of very many languages in the world, this is not so for a large number of Indo-European languages, most notably Germanic ones. In addition to what Niklas Laxström wrote, we also have at least one language that does not have a true default, and thus resorts to constructs like "the user named X..." which does not imply a gender. While this fits for neuter, too, it is definitely not the way you would talk about a neuter. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
