Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:01:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gender in Indo-European languages (was: Laugh: [Fwd: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-008]) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102081958130.43160-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20010209102117.G11145@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: :On Thursday, 8 February 2001 at 9:26:51 -0800, Jamie Bowden wrote: :> One can easily be gender neutral if one so chooses. :One would sound somewhat stilted referring to ones possessions. One's posessions would be referred to as 'it'. :> The out of use thee, thine, and thou are all gender neutral pronouns :> as well. :"Thine" is a particular case of the possessive adjective "thy" :(specifically, accusative). In older days "thy" definitely had :gender, though it's now degenerate. "Thou" and "thee" are the same :word in nominative and accusative respectively. They're personal :pronouns (second person singular), and I find it difficult to see how :they would address the problem at hand any better than "you" and :"your". Ack, deprecated versions of you and yours. I could swear Englash had deprecated pronouns for referring to someone in a gender neutral fashion. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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